http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/film/interview-jennifer-ehle-on-new-spooks-film-1-3754870
Interview: Jennifer Ehle on new Spooks film
Sunday 26th April 2015
Excerpt….
At dinner with Jeremy Northam (with whom she’d worked on Possession) and a friend of his who it turned out was from Blairgowrie, they described their predicament. “We asked this friend if he knew anywhere in Scotland where we could go and wait while the insurance and all that was sorted out. He called his mum. Then he said, ‘Can you afford £65 a week?’ and we said yes, and he said. ‘Well my mum knows a place…’ The next day we got on the train.”
They lived in Blairgowrie for the next few months and while there decided to get married on Skye. “We had to post our banns in Portree and then we got married in the registry office. It was wonderful. Perfect. Our time in Scotland was perfect.
“Every day I got some cookbooks from the library in Blairgowrie. I’d never really done much cooking, but we’d pick out what I’d make and then we’d walk into town to the grocery store and the butcher and the fishmonger, buy whatever it was, then I’d go home and cook and practise. We ate well and walked a lot. Our landlords called us the dormice because we were so in love and so happy we were hunkered down and they didn’t see us very much. It was very romantic and lovely.”
I’m now starting to really understand what she means by having a life outside of acting is her priority. “Exactly,” she says. “But it will give you a very eccentric trajectory. But that’s OK. It’s what’s happening around the work that’s most interesting to me. I do love the work. I’ve always had a complicated relationship with it but it’s in a really good place at the moment and I’m really enjoying it.”
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. (Charles M. Schulz)
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