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DRAMA QUEEN On-screen, she’s the star of dramas like Ashes To Ashes and new series Identity; off-screen she knits and keeps chickens. Stylist meets the two very different sides of Keeley Hawes
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hen Stylist meets Keeley thinks they need a specialist team to fantastic. I love that sort of thing, but sort of a no-no to be pregnant. People Hawes, the first thing fight identity theft. As a character she I’m more of a beans girl myself. are afraid of falling off the radar, and that strikes us is that the was very appealing because she’s this so my actress friends have waited and W You had three children by the actress rarely stops strong woman – or so we think. I think waited. You can wait forever really. But time you were 30. Was that laughing. Sometimes it’s lots of people, not just women, have as I say, it’s happening now, just as all a conscious decision? a shy, nervous giggle, but mostly it’s their public face at work and their mine are sleeping through! a big, unapologetic roar that fills the This is going to sound really weird, private face at home. On the surface What do you think you would have room – so infectious that it has Stylist even to me now, but I never imagined she’s very together and in control, but been doing if you weren’t an actress? laughing too. In reality, the 33-year-old there was a choice. I grew up with then she goes home to this sad little Possibly an interior designer or nurse. actress is far softer and less serious my mother, who had four children very flat and eats lots of takeaways. I don’t know. It changes week to week, than any of the characters she has young, and I always imagined that would be how my life went. I just usually with whichever script I read. It’s played, whether it’s hard-boiled MI Do you feel you have a different thought you had children when you’re funny, my mum didn’t work and my agent Zoe Reynolds in the long-running persona at work to home? young. [Pauses]. It sounds bizarre, and sister stays at home with her family action series Spooks or feisty police Yes, I do. But I think that’s quite nice. I’m not saying it’s right but it never too. I’m a bit of an anomaly. detective Alex Drake in cult Eighties- I like being a mummy and a wife who occurred to me to be older. Did they encourage going into acting? set drama Ashes To Ashes. Wearing a gets on my husband’s nerves or Oh yes, completely. I mean, they knew crisp white shirt, cropped chinos and whatever. I love the fact I don’t go to Has it hit you now…? nothing about it – my dad was a taxi flat sandals when we sit down with her parties every night and get shitfaced. That I had a choice? [Laughs]. Yeah, I at London’s ITV studios, she looks driver, still is. He does the black cabs, glamorous in an understated Keira but they let me go to stage school. Knightley-by-day sort of way (in fact, Is that where the elocution lessons there’s a definite resemblance). came in? [Keeley attended classes It’s Keeley’s new six-part TV series, from the age of nine] Identity, in which she plays another Yes, it was just a bit of voice coaching. police detective (this time at the helm It wasn’t like my parents said, “Go of a unit investigating identity-related and speak properly, girl!” And it wasn’t crime), that she’s here to talk to us like we were Cockney. We’re from about today. It’s a project she’s hugely central London so I had more of passionate about. “Normally you only a London accent. I don’t get drunk get to read one script before you say and start talking like this [puts on yes to a series. But with this show I got Cockney accent]. Forget me-self to read four episodes, and so I was [laughs]. And at family get-togethers, certain the character, Martha, was I don’t stick out like a sore thumb. someone I wanted to play.” Or at least, I don’t think… While DSI Martha Lawson cuts IN NEW ITV1 DRAMA IDENTITY WITH SPOOKS CO-STAR a somewhat lonely figure in the WITH THE WIRE STAR AND HUSBAND, You’ve said previously that the AIDAN GILLEN MATTHEW MACFAYDAN series, the mum-of-three leads negative press you received while a comparatively charmed life in starring in Ashes To Ashes mostly Twickenham, Surrey, with her actor came from men [who claimed her husband and ex-Spooks co-star character was unlikeable]. How did Matthew Macfadyen, their daughter, “EVERYONE’S AFRAID OF A BAD you deal with that? Maggie, five, son Ralph, three, and REVIEW – I JUST TOOK IT SO My personal flaws, as in the flaws I see Keeley’s nine-year-old son Myles who in myself, have part-way been ironed she had whilst married to her ex, PERSONALLY. I LET IT GET TO out through the flak I got for Ashes. cartoonist Spencer McCallum. When People didn’t like that character being she’s at home she confesses it’s the ME AND I SHOULDN’T HAVE” in that particular show, because she simple pleasures “like coming home was a woman and it [Ashes To Ashes’ when the cleaner’s just been”, that prequel Life On Mars] had always been make her happiest, and sewing and Do you enjoy being domesticated? suppose as I’ve got older. And it’s quite male-dominated. They felt like she knitting. Her house is “so full of Oh, I love it. I really do! [Laughs]. I’ve topical now – people having six babies didn’t fit in. So that kept me up at patchwork you would laugh your head always got lots of satisfaction out of at 59 or whatever – it’s made me think, night. It was one of the worst times in off,” she says, before throwing her own building a nest and making things ‘Crikey, I’ve got a nine-year-old. I’ve got my life. But looking back, if that’s going head back and doing just that… lovely, but my mum is like that too, and three children and I’m 33!’ But I love to be one of the worst times in my life, my sister. And my daughter actually, the fact my son’s up to here now you know what, I’ve got a nice f***king You play a police detective again in but she’s five [laughs]. She’s very keen [measures against her shoulder] and life. I’m actually much stronger now this series. How does it feel different and makes the bed occasionally. But he puts his arm around me. It’s lovely. – I wouldn’t be afraid of anything. to Ashes To Ashes? yes, I’m very into my hot-water bottles You’ve talked about adopting. Is that What were you afraid of then? I never really looked at Ashes as a and things. We have chickens at home, something you’re still considering? Everybody’s afraid of a bad review. police procedural role. That’s sort of and I love knitting. There’s this little We had a time when we were thinking I wasn’t even afraid, I just took it the secondary thing about the show – shop near where I live called Mrs about it a lot because we would like so personally. I let it get to me and the story of the week was always Moons where I’ve had time to go to more. But then we both got very busy I shouldn’t have. But it’s better now. a little bit weak and you can usually lessons. Oh god, I’m so boring! [Roars and I think it would have been silly. If guess who did it in the first five with laughter]. Help me! It’s toughened you up? you adopt a child you need to put your minutes. Identity is much cleverer in It’s toughened me right up [puts on No, go on! Why do you love knitting? entire life into that. It would have that way. I suppose it felt a bit like Cockney accent]. Look how tough I am! I think… well, making your life cosy become my full-time job. It’s something Spooks; the office-y nature of it and all But it makes me think, looking back… in that way, it’s something grannies I think about, as I get more sensible. that strutting through hallways… I was so upset. And life’s too have taken a lifetime to achieve. So Are your friends married short for that, isn’t it? why not take their lead now? We hear your character DSI Martha with children too? Lawson is somewhat forceful… What about cooking? Are you a pro No. Hah! They’re only just starting to Identity starts at 9pm on 5 July on Yes, she is. She’s the one who originally in the kitchen? go down that route. That’s the other ITV1 and is available to own on DVD from
WORDS MEGAN CONNER PHOTOGRAPHY LORENZO AGIUS/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES ITV COM REX FEATURES gets the unit green lit because she I’m not brilliant, but Matthew is side of it – when you’re an actress it’s 16 August
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