Who is Emily Maitlis, the famous journalist from the Netflix movie "Scoop"?

"The Crown" may be over, but Netflix has delivered a new dramatization of royal history. The new film, Scoop, is a behind-the-scenes look at the infamous interview on BBC's Newsnight in 2019, in which journalist Emily Maitlis, played by Gillian Anderson, sat down with Prince Andrew (Rufus Sewell), a convicted sex offender She discussed her friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Based on producer Sam McAlister's book, Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interviews, the film focuses on the women who made the award-winning interview possible, and how Maitlis questioned the royal family The film also shows how Maitlis developed a strategy for questioning the royal family and how this resulted in Prince Andrew's departure from his royal duties.

Less well known in the United States, Maitlis is one of Britain's most respected journalists, and her decades-long career has established her in the media industry. She is not involved in any Netflix films, but that doesn't mean her own take on the 2019 interview won't be available for streaming soon. To learn more about the media personality, including her thoughts on Scoop compared to her own TV series, read on.

Maitlis, 53, was born in Ontario, Canada, and grew up in Sheffield, in north-central England. After graduating from Cambridge University, she worked as a documentary reporter and presenter in Hong Kong before returning to the UK to work as a business correspondent for Sky News, and since 2006 has been a regular presenter (or anchor) on BBC News Channel programs, including Newsnight, In 2018, she was named lead anchor of Newsnight.

He has received several awards over the course of his career, including the 2017 London Press Club Award for Broadcast Journalist of the Year and the 2019 and 2020 Royal Television Society (RTS) Television Journalism Award for Network Presenter of the Year She has also been a member of the Board of Directors for the past three years. She is also the author of Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News, published in 2019.

In early 2022, Maitlis left the BBC to host the daily news podcast The News Agents with fellow journalists John Sopel and Louis Goodall. She is married to investment manager Mark Gwynn and they have two sons. Maitlis is also known as a running enthusiast, and according to the LA Times, she sometimes conducts interviews while running.

In "Scoop," Maitlis' character shares several scenes with a special companion named Whippet, named Moody. This caster's dog appears before her first appearance in the film. The British pooch is shown roaming the halls of the BBC's London headquarters before Maitlis appears wearing a chic gold necklace with a pendant in the shape of Moody.

In real life, Maitlis is Moody's devoted dog-mama, but has been accused of bringing Moody to work. A source told the Daily Mail. 'Emily loved that dog and was often by her side when she went to work. When I come to work, Emily has the dog with her. Some people laughed. Some laughed. Maybe it was the moderators, but people who made much less than Emily had to pay for things like walking the dog."

The Moodie newspaper reported that "Emily's dog was a very good friend.

Moody became a national topic in the UK after Maitlis was criticized in 2019 for letting her dog sit on her seat on a train. While we'll refrain from getting into the debate about letting dogs sit on train seats, at the time, Maitlis claimed that critics were "pet-shaming." There is no denying how much she loves her pups.

Scoop cast Gillian Anderson from "The X-Files" and "The Crown" to play Maitlis, but the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress almost turned down the role; at an April 3 preview in New York, the actress initially said that playing a public figure was " really bad idea," she revealed.

"I felt that Emily Maitlis was very well known in the UK. She has been on our screens, ears and podcasts for a long time and is known around town as Superwoman. 'In the movie she swims and jogs and interviews world leaders. And all of that is very true, she is very formidable and I know a lot of people who know her."

Anderson continued. "I've played a couple of people who aren't alive anymore, and it just seemed like a really bad idea to not only play someone who is alive, but to play someone who lives in the neighborhood. So I said, 'No thanks.'"

Maitlis is not involved in the production of "Scoop," but is executive producing another project that delves into the famous 2019 interview: in November 2023, Variety reported that Amazon is producing a three-part mini called A Very Royal Scandal While "Scoop" will feature Sam McAlister, "A Very Royal Scandal" will "feature Emily Maitlis as Newsnight journalist as she follows her professional and personal journey leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew," according to the official description.

In an April 5 interview with Deadline, Maitlis commented on Scoop, suggesting that she and McAllister have "different memories of how the Prince Andrew interview was secured."

Maitlis said of the Netflix movie, "I very much left it up to them to do their own thing. They're saying it's based on fiction, so I think it's going to go to a different place [than the Amazon series] and do different things." The former anchor's agent later clarified that she describes "Scoop" as a "dramatization."

Regarding the duel between a movie and a miniseries, Maitlis added: "I think it's a good idea. I am convinced there is room for both. It's unreal that there is so much interest and excitement."

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