Keeley Hawes has cornered the market in playing complex characters, but off-screen is there a role for life’s simpler pleasures? She talks to Rebecca Nicholson about the joys of TV, meeting her husband on set – and caravanning with Emma BuntonA couple of months ago, Keeley Hawes was in the Wolseley on London’s Piccadilly, about to have lunch, when she saw a familiar face across the room.
She was meeting her husband, the actor Matthew Macfadyen.
“I went, ‘My God, it’s Amber Rudd,’” she whispers.
In the television juggernaut that was BBC One’s Bodyguard, Hawes was Julia Montague, the ill-fated home secretary who took no nonsense, though she took a shine to her security detail, played by Richard Madden.
She had researched Rudd for the role, and the similarities did not go unnoticed.
But the pair were yet to meet.Rudd had been complimentary about Hawes
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