Rachel Weisz admits she 'felt terribly for Prince Andrew' while watching A Very Royal Scandal as she's interviewed by her 'oldest friend' Emily Maitlis

Rachel Weisz has said she 'felt terribly for Prince Andrew' portion watching the Amazon play of his Newsnight interrogation with Emily Maitlis.

The Oscar-winning actress, 54, besides praised Michael Sheen's portrayal of the disgraced royal successful A Very Royal Scandal which was released connected Thursday.

She said: 'What I emotion truthful overmuch astir the bid is the empathy with which Prince Andrew is played, and the pathos and humanity successful this character, which is thing that the writer and Michael Sheen had to invent.

'That was an imaginative act. [I was] watching the play and feeling conscionable truthful terrible, I felt terribly for Prince Andrew.'

She made the remarks astatine the Cliveden Literary Festival portion successful speech with Maitlis, 54, who she described arsenic her 'oldest friend'.

The erstwhile Newsnight presenter, who acted arsenic enforcement shaper connected the Amazon series, confessed that she called upon her Hollywood histrion person for advice.

She said: 'I was calling up Rachel and saying, 'Help, this is your world, and I don't cognize however to woody with this'.'

'I went to Rachel, archetypal of all, and said, 'What should I beryllium doing? How overmuch of myself should I give? Should I unfastened up my freezer and fto them spot the vodka?'

Ms Weisz, who has starred successful The Mummy and The Favourite, revealed that she 'felt unthinkable anxiety' for her person letting the accumulation unit into her life.

The histrion said: 'Em's a profoundly backstage person, and I abruptly got disquieted that your beingness was going to beryllium invaded successful this way, and I felt precise protective. And tried to springiness you immoderate advice.'

In the caller series, Maitlis is played by Ruth Wilson, and is seen bickering with her hubby astatine home, making meal for her children, and drinking vodka from her freezer. 

Maitlis adjacent gave Wilson her ain overgarment and a handbag to usage connected set.

Ms Weisz added: 'We've watched each different successful our respective worlds. 

'My satellite is fiction. Your satellite is not, it's astir uncovering the truth. 

'I wanted you to person a consciousness that adjacent though determination needed to beryllium facts investigated, that immoderate of you needed to enactment successful private. So I felt protective of that.'

The presenter besides revealed that arsenic a kid she had 'tried to lure Rachel into a prospective vocation successful news' but failed.

Ms Weisz was accompanied astatine the lawsuit by her hubby Daniel Craig.

The 56-year-old histrion looked a acold outcry from the slicked backmost hairsbreadth and meal overgarment of his James Bond days.

Instead helium opted for a floppy-haired look, pairing stone-washed denim jeans with a leather jacket.

Emily reflected connected her history-making interrogation with Prince Andrew successful 2019 arsenic she appeared connected Wednesday's Good Morning Britain.

On GMB Emily recounted her clip doing the interview, candidly saying watching the bid backmost reminded her of the accent of taking connected the challenge.

She said: 'When I ticker the play I get palpitations - it takes maine backmost to erstwhile I thought 'will I retrieve to inquire the close questions? Can I bash this?''

She added of her absorption to Prince Andrew's demeanour: 'I realised aboriginal connected helium would beryllium candid successful his responses. We ne'er assumed guilt and it was an hr of his ain words. 

'It didn't substance what helium said it was ever going to marque history. We knew we lone had 1 changeable astatine it to perceive from the Prince. It was a papers of nationalist grounds if anything.

'We were gathering up the representation of what really happened and it was rather forensic.'

When asked by big Richard Madeley what she thought of the Prince erstwhile the interrogation was done she cautiously answered: 'I thought helium had tried precise hard to retrieve his lines...

'He wanted america to movie other pieces excessively helium wanted to grow connected the Pizza Express worldly and things similar that. It was a dilemma arsenic a writer whether to adhd worldly helium wanted astatine the end.

'But helium was blessed with the interrogation helium gave america a circuit of the Palace aft the interrogation and helium adjacent invited america back.'

She added of the imaginable harm the interrogation could person caused: 'I bash interest astir the fallout from it.

'There was fallout for his family. I consciousness interest for him arsenic I bash for anyone that has had a driblet successful status. But I don't regret the interview.'

To antagonistic equilibrium her constituent she added: 'But thing has been concluded for Epstein's victims still.'