Game of Thrones’ Rose Leslie on playing the Time Traveler’s Wife and life with Kit HaringtonRose Leslie and her baby son have Covid.
“Day three.
It is fairly grim,” she says.
You’d never guess: she’s perky and bright in a stripy T-shirt, endlessly patient and accommodating when our Zoom collapses, greeting my every trite observation with enthusiasm.
It’s hard not to feel she has “trouper” stamped through her like a stick of seaside rock.I wonder if that preternaturally cheery thoughtfulness is part of the reason Leslie accumulates plum roles in prestige TV franchises like Brownie badges.
After winning a Scottish Bafta straight out of drama school for her portrayal of a naive Hebridean student in the dark comedy, New Town, she was cast in Downton Abbey as ambitious housemaid-with-notions, Gwen Dawson.
In Game of Thrones – of which, inevitably, more later – she’s insolent, mocking,
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