Actor Rufus Sewell speaks about playing the Duke of York in new film Scoop

Yes to Emily conducting one of the most important interviews that BBC has ever done or has ever happened in this Well, it’s, you know, that it’s this question of sympathy versus empathy. You know, and empathy is very interesting. Like the way a camera works is a grayscale it looks at either a bright scene or a black scene, and it sees Gray. And that’s a good way of getting all the detail. You know. And I try, you try to do that, like to be able to really try to see something from someone’s perspective, what they would be thinking, what the truth they’re telling themselves about their moment, their reasons for being the way they are, so that you can represent them fully, not make them look good, not make them look bad, but just try to be truthful. And it’s very tempting sometimes to slant it one way or another, because you can be criticized for going too far in either direction. Especially playing something like this, yeah.