Kate Winslet's Daughter Mia Threaplton Stars in Surprising “Scoop” Scene Involving Prince Andrew's Teddy Bears

Mia Threaplton makes a cameo as a royal household staffer in Netflix's new drama

Kate Winslet's daughter Mia Threapleton makes a cameo in Netflix’s new movie Scoop about Prince Andrew’s infamous Newsnight interview, and the surprising scene revives a report about the royal's extensive teddy bear collection.

In the drama released on April 5, 23-year-old Threapleton appeared opposite Rufus Sewell as the Duke of York as a palace maid tasked with arranging the teddy bears in his bedroom. The scene imagined Prince Andrew watching a newscast about Jeffrey Epstein being arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019 before bellowing at the maid as she positioned the mountain of plush animals on his bed.

"How many times?" he yelled, as the housekeeper jumped up to apologize — the royal cypher "ER" stitched onto her uniform amid Queen Elizabeth’s reign.

"Where does he go? Simple question. A clue? He's a marsupial," Sewell continued in character as Prince Andrew, picking up a stuffed kangaroo. "Roo, as in Kanga? Put them together, what do you get?"

"Roo kanga?" Threapleton suggested on screen, prompting the Duke of York to order her to "go away."

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The exchange called back to Prince Andrew’s former maid's claim in a 2022 interview with The Sun. Charlotte Briggs worked at Buckingham Palace in the 1990s and alleged that part of her job was meticulously arranging Prince Andrew’s collection of 72 teddy bears in the proper places on his bed and around his room.

"As soon as I got the job, I was told about the teddies, and it was drilled into me how he wanted them," she told the outlet. "I even had a day's training. Everything had to be just right. It was so peculiar."

Briggs said there were 72 teddy bears from around the world with many dressed in sailor outfits, a detail replicated in Scoop.

Each day, Briggs said she arranged the bears with the largest at the back and the smallest in front. In the evening, she or another maid would follow a diagram to put the teddy bears in their designated spots around the room.

Small bears were stacked in an unused fireplace while other stuffed animals — including two hippos and a black panther called "Daddy," "Ducks" and "Prince" — were placed on the bed or elsewhere around the room. Prince Andrew's two favorite teddy bears were placed on mahogany thrones at his bedside.

"It was so odd," Briggs told The Sun. "After all, he was a grown man who had served in the Falklands. But he absolutely loved the ­teddies and was very clear about how he wanted them arranged."

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Scoop was inspired by a memoir by Sam McAlister, the former BBC producer who secured an interview with the Duke of York for the network’s current affairs show Newsnight. McAlister locked in the conversation after a year of painstaking negotiations with the palace, which kicked off with a pitch around Prince Andrew’s charitable work. But after Epstein wound up back in the headlines after being arrested in July 2019 and charged in a federal indictment alleging he had "sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes," Prince Andrew was driven to go on the record about his relationship with the disgraced financier.

"It started as, in a sense, a non-story, and then it became the biggest story in the world," McAlister exclusively tells PEOPLE.

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Queen Elizabeth's second son famously sat opposite journalist Emily Maitlis (played by Gillian Anderson in Scoop) in the South Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace on November 14, 2019, for the Newsnight interview where he discussed his links to Epstein for the first time and allegations that he had sex with Virginia Guiffre when she was 17.

Four days after the Newsnight interview was aired, Prince Andrew announced he was stepping back from his royal role.

The Duke of York has denied any wrongdoing and said he continued to "unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein," who died in prison while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges in August 2019.

Prince Andrew was later stripped of his military titles and patronages by Queen Elizabeth in January 2022 amid Giuffre's civil sexual assault lawsuit, in which she claimed she was trafficked by Epstein and forced to have sex with the royal three times between 1999 and 2002 when she was a teenager. An out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed amount was reached the following month.

Scoop is now streaming on Netflix.

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