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Author: riddler
Nick Foulkes meets the woman who can spot a potential top model at 20 paces It is a clammy afternoon in a Covent Garden office. Messy, frantic and frenetic, rows of young people toil at banks of computer screens. Imagine a high-pressure City dealing room with a slightly loopy dress-down ethos. In my suit and…Continue reading*London Evening Standard: Twenty-one years in search of the next look
“I’d rather see sex on screen than violence” Keeley Hawes says co-star Jonny Lee Miller ‘kept a little pair of pants on’ while filming their sex scenes in Complicity. Keeley Hawes has achieved the impossible — she was so sexy in a love scene with co-star Jonny Lee Miller that she made him blush. The…Continue readingNow Magazine: “I’d rather see sex on screen than violence”
Keeley, the reluctant temptress It doesn’t come easy trying to imagine Keeley Hawes, gamine young star of steamy period dramas such as the BBC’s Wives and Daughters and heavily cleavaged ones such as the Diana Dors biopic Blonde Bombshell, sitting at home knitting. She says that her sister has to cast off for her —…Continue reading**London Evening Standard: Keeley, the reluctant temptress
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Interview Magazine February 2000
The Last September? In this coming May’s The Last September, a studied but sensuous look at Ireland’s last days under British rule in 1920, Keeley Hawes proves herself a seductive new screen talent as an innocent wild child with a Louise Brooks bob and a sexual energy she barely comprehends. This daughter of a Cockney…Continue readingInterview Magazine February 2000
Justine’s eye on a floozie Justine Waddell may look like an old-fashioned girl, but, given the chance, she would rather throw propriety to the wind and let her hair down. Or maybe just cut it all off. The actress portrays the spirited romantic heroine Molly Gibson — the poor lamb’s reputation is almost blackened because…Continue readingThe Daily Mail: Justine’s eye on a floozie (Justine Waddell interview)
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The Evening News: Costume Drama Queen
Costume Drama Queen Keeley Hawes stars in another period piece, but the taxi driver’s daughter is more than happy to keep pulling on the corsets, she tells Ben Atherton. Sunday night is shaping up to be Battle of the Costume Dramas night. While ITV weighs in with Alan Bleasdale’s convention-busting Oliver Twist, the BBC is…Continue readingThe Evening News: Costume Drama Queen
A New Wives TaleContinue readingRadio Times: Wives and Daughters feature
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What Katy Did (1999)
A children’s programme filmed in Canada and broadcast on ITV in the 1999/2000 Christmas season. A Canadian-British co-production between Catalyst Entertainment Production and Tetra Films. Interestingly, it stars Alison Pill (Queen Maud in The Pillars of the Earth) as Katy and Michael Cera as Dorry Carr. First mentioned in a Radio Times feature on Wives…Continue readingWhat Katy Did (1999)
The team who made Pride and Prejudice into the hottest BBC drama for years are now filming a novel by Mrs Gaskell. David Gritten goes on set to investigate. For more than a century, Elizabeth Gaskell has ranked firmly in the second division of English Victorian novelists, her reputation eclipsed by Dickens, Jane Austen, George…Continue readingThe Sunday Telegraph London: The Arts: Will Molly be as big as Mr Darcy?