Blinking Dominic West at it now.

[EachandEveryone]

Its like The Affair in real life. When he was McNulty he was playing around then just like that character. He tales method acting seriously. I love everything hes ever been in. No need to guess shes nearly half is age www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/12912518/dominic-west-wife-devastated-heartbroken-lily-james/

Why is Lily still being persecuted by the DM?

It actually feels quite vengeful now.

Because she wanted attention to do as she did. If it’s too now, all of a sudden, too bad.

Because she wanted attention to do as she did. If it’s too much now, all of a sudden, too bad.

Why is Lily still being persecuted by the DM?

Because people are clicking on it and reading it, boosting their page views and therefore their revenue.

Easier target than Dominic? Sexism?

She must feel mortified though.

Article on Lily James in the Guardian.
Interesting colour dress she poses in.
Sorry I can't do links, somebody might oblige.

@LadyEloise

Article on Lily James in the Guardian. Interesting colour dress she poses in. Sorry I can't do links, somebody might oblige.

www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/24/lily-james-sucked-into-the-vortex-rebecca

"She won’t be drawn on her love life, but it does seem that her long-term relationship with the actor Matt Smith (the Doctor, and Prince Philip in The Crown) came to an end somewhere around this period. There are rumours that she had a fling with the actor Chris Evans (Captain America) but she’s far too sensible to tell me, and claims to have spent the summer on her own, at home in London, reading poetry aloud and watching films. What, all of it, entirely alone? Really?

She laughs, a somewhat suggestive smile passing over her lips. “No comment,” she says. Then she mutters, “I couldn’t confess to breaking laws, you know.”"

" ... she and Dominic West go back a decade to her first play, Othello, in which she played Desdemona to his Iago. “So I’ve known him a really long time. He’s a brilliant Uncle Matthew, another mad sort of character. I have a great line in it where I say, ‘Matthew is frightening and I disapprove of him, but I feel he sets the bar for English manhood.’” She smiles with some relish. “What a great line.” A few weeks after we meet, the tabloids go to town over photographs of James and West sharing a scooter and embracing in Rome. They go to town again when West flies home to appear in front of photographers with his wife and a handwritten note, insisting “our marriage is strong”. James declined to comment."

Ooof, the last two lines of that article! I guess the journo had a point to get across:

"She says she’s gullible, and perhaps she is. But I think Lily James knows exactly what she’s doing."

From that Guardian article "When she was 18, her father died of cancer".

It sounds like the filming was quite instense in their bubble.....

It was the colour of her outfit in the photo.

Anyone seen 'Rebecca?'. If you're a fan of the book and the Hitchcock film it will probably disappoint, Lily James is far too glam and sexually confident to be du Maurier's second Mrs de Winter. If new to it, however, you'll probably find it passable. Glad it's on Netflix though, I'd be miffed if I'd paid £15 to see it in a cinema.

DM are now insinuating she was carrying on with her Rebecca co-star.

@DustyLoafer

DM are now insinuating she was carrying on with her Rebecca co-star.

That’s been a fairly prominent rumour for a while now. He left his wife during the course of filming ‘Rebecca’, so I think the rumours started around then.

When the DW thing hit the news, I briefly wondered if it was an ill-considered attempt to deflect from the Armie Hammer allegations, though I think that’s probably not it as the DW thing is even more damning than the AH rumours.

geez, she'll be lucky to work again if she's painted as a home wrecker x 2

I saw them interviewed the other day Armie and Lily, and she was VERY quiet.

It does look bad having both names in the frame. It just shows what goes on between actors on location. They must think they are exempt from morals.

I saw Rebecca yesterday and enjoyed it thought agree that Lily played a different character to the novel's second Mrs D Winter. Loved Ann Dowd and KST made a good Mrs Danvers.

I did not know that AH had left his wife during filming. I was quite intrigued in that Guardian article that Lily implies filming Rebecca was a very emotionally draining experience compared with The Pursuit of Love. I was watching the film last night wondering why that was.

yes. Her role didnt look that exhausting. KST was good as Mrs Danvers. I missed the gothic darkness of du Maurier and Hitchcock combined. There should have been more suspense in the production for my taste.

Im just eating ice cream and watching it now. I cant unsee Alison in her I think its because the advert for His Dark Materials keeps being on! They do both have the same top lip.

Lily annoys me the same way Keira Knightly does.

Agree ref suspense. It is a long time since I have read the book. But I seem to recall that it was hard to decide (in the book) whether what Second Mrs De Winter thought happened actually did, whereas in the film it was a given that it had. I may be wrong though!

The NF "Rebecca" is dreadful. Both leads woefully miscast, wooden acting, and it seemed to think it was a twee romance rather than a Gothic horror. Armie Hammer was way too young and too hunky to be Max De Winter. I normally hate it when middle aged men are paired with pretty young women on screen but the age and power differential here is crucial to understanding the characters. And Kirsten Scott Thomas was nowhere near terrifying enough to be Danvers - she looked like a chic 1940s secretary, not this gloomy, shadowy figure always lingering in unlit corners.

Did anyone ask for this remake? James is the new Kiara Knightley - anything vaguely 'period drama-esque' and she's a shoo in, even though as an actress she's average at best.

God, they massacred Rebecca, and it's one of my favourites. Nobody could mistaken LJ for an ingenue, and Max de Winter is meant to be a lot more manipulative and a bit creepy, surely?

@OwlOne

geez, she'll be lucky to work again if she's painted as a home wrecker x 2

Bloody hell its not the 1950’s she’s the single one, It’s the men that are married.