Michael Sheen Thinks There’s Still ‘Mystery’ Surrounding What Happened Between Prince Andrew and Virginia

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00:00For me personally, the challenge was that there is this kind of mystery at the heart of the

00:07character. You know, there's a mystery at the heart of the drama. We don't know what he did

00:11or didn't do beyond a certain point. We know up to a certain point he was at this place at this

00:16time, you know, whatever. And even some of that is disputed. But beyond that, it's unknowable.

00:23There's been no court case. There's been no definitive judgment on that. It was settled

00:28out of court with Virginia. So that was the challenge for me, was how do you play a character

00:37where the single most important fact, you don't know? So I had to make choices about that,

00:45because I have to be specific about what I'm doing and how I'm playing this person. But

00:52yeah, that was a big challenge. And just playing a member of the royal family,

00:55generally speaking, it is a bit like a hall of mirrors. There's so much that's unknowable

00:59about them and so much that's based on gossip and hearsay and that kind of thing.

01:03So that was a challenge. There was a lot of guesswork involved.