Stylist - Mrs Moon

ISSUE 36 / 30 JUNE 2010 / W W W. ST YLIST.CO.UK
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RECIPES, HAMPERS AND
HOTSPOTS TO CREATE THE
PERFECT PICNIC
VANESSA PARADIS ON
HER HOT NEW ROM-COM
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6 - 8 X S C O O P
Win a boutique break in France
and Victoria Beckham’s latest
collection of sunglasses
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1 1 X E L S EW H E R E
The Japanese get divorce happy and
the US discover lesbian couples
make the best parents
Fa s h i on & Beau ty
2 1 X M O S T D E S I R E D
with a new face spray and book in
for a crystal pedicure
Every week
3 4 XL I T T L E BL ACK B O O K
From fashion to furniture, discover
this week’s must-have buys
Where to buy this week’s style
Fe a t u r e s
3 6 X T H E WO M E N O F 7/ 7
Five years on from the London
bombings we discover the stories
of hope that emerged out of tragedy
4 0 X W H AT YO U R VO I C E
R E A L LY S AY S A B O U T YO U
Kate Moss for Topshop’s
embroidered butterfly dress
Why it’s not what you say but the
way that you say it
2 2 X S O L A R P OW E R
44X THE ART OF THE
PERFECT PICNIC
From barely there bikinis to retro
two-pieces, find your perfect
summer swimsuit
2 8 X T H E L I F E AQ UAT I C
Why it’s time to hit the pool for
summer-long beauty
3 2 XBE AU T Y NOT E S
Keep your make-up in place in the heat
TAKE THE PLUNGE INTO
SUMMER BEAUTY
Mouth-watering recipes, beautiful
destinations and luxury hampers –
all you need for alfresco eating
50 X DRAMA QUEEN
National treasure Keeley Hawes
on acting, dealing with bad reviews
and, er, knitting
Most women spend a lot of time
thinking about how they present
themselves. We spend hours
selecting outfits for important
events, meticulously plan
presentations and pick the right
words to a friend
in need or a
partner… But
bizarrely not
many women
spend much time
thinking about
their actual voice.
It turns out, this
is a mistake!
Our voice is
actually one of
the most powerful tools we own,
and according to new research, the
thing that strangers judge us on the
most. So this week we’ve looked at
the fascinating research that proves
we should be giving our voices as
much attention as our wardrobes,
plus we’ve investigated the ways in
which you can change your voice
to further your career and your
relationships (page 40). Now that
really is something to shout about.
4 X THE STYLE LIST
1 2 X WO R K L I F E
Private investigator Helen Foster
Clark on the art of surveillance
1 5 X T R AV E L
Relax and unwind in a Lake Garda
spa with a difference
1 7 X DAW N P O R T E R S H A R E S
Is there anything worse than being
humiliated on stage? No is the answer
52 X OUTGOING
The biggest and best events
happening round the UK
5 3 XG O U R M ET O N T H E G O
Get summery with a tempting
potato and chard salad
5 4 X6 0 - S E C O N D T H E R A P I S T
Singer Macy Gray on the joys of
being her own person
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W W W S T Y L I S T C O U K KEELEY HAWES: MOTHER,
ACTRESS, LOVER OF KNITTING
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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K E E L E Y H AWE S
hen Stylist meets Keeley
Hawes, the first thing
that strikes us is that the
actress rarely stops
laughing. Sometimes it’s
a shy, nervous giggle, but mostly it’s
a big, unapologetic roar that fills the
room – so infectious that it has Stylist
laughing too. In reality, the 33-year-old
actress is far softer and less serious
than any of the characters she has
played, whether it’s hard-boiled MI
agent Zoe Reynolds in the long-running
action series Spooks or feisty police
detective Alex Drake in cult Eightiesset drama Ashes To Ashes. Wearing a
crisp white shirt, cropped chinos and
flat sandals when we sit down with her
at London’s ITV studios, she looks
glamorous in an understated Keira
Knightley-by-day sort of way (in fact,
there’s a definite resemblance).
It’s Keeley’s new six-part TV series,
Identity, in which she plays another
police detective (this time at the helm
of a unit investigating identity-related
crime), that she’s here to talk to us
about today. It’s a project she’s hugely
passionate about. “Normally you only
get to read one script before you say
yes to a series. But with this show I got
to read four episodes, and so I was
certain the character, Martha, was
someone I wanted to play.”
While DSI Martha Lawson cuts
a somewhat lonely figure in the
series, the mum-of-three leads
a comparatively charmed life in
Twickenham, Surrey, with her actor
husband and ex-Spooks co-star
Matthew Macfadyen, their daughter,
Maggie, five, son Ralph, three, and
Keeley’s nine-year-old son Myles who
she had whilst married to her ex,
cartoonist Spencer McCallum. When
she’s at home she confesses it’s the
simple pleasures “like coming home
when the cleaner’s just been”, that
make her happiest, and sewing and
knitting. Her house is “so full of
patchwork you would laugh your head
off,” she says, before throwing her own
head back and doing just that…
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You play a police detective again in
this series. How does it feel different
to Ashes To Ashes?
I never really looked at Ashes as a
police procedural role. That’s sort of
the secondary thing about the show –
the story of the week was always
a little bit weak and you can usually
guess who did it in the first five
minutes. Identity is much cleverer in
that way. I suppose it felt a bit like
Spooks; the office-y nature of it and all
that strutting through hallways…
We hear your character DSI Martha
Lawson is somewhat forceful…
Yes, she is. She’s the one who originally
gets the unit green lit because she
thinks they need a specialist team to
fight identity theft. As a character she
was very appealing because she’s this
strong woman – or so we think. I think
lots of people, not just women, have
their public face at work and their
private face at home. On the surface
she’s very together and in control, but
then she goes home to this sad little
flat and eats lots of takeaways.
Do you feel you have a different
persona at work to home?
Yes, I do. But I think that’s quite nice.
I like being a mummy and a wife who
gets on my husband’s nerves or
whatever. I love the fact I don’t go to
parties every night and get shitfaced.
fantastic. I love that sort of thing, but
I’m more of a beans girl myself.
You had three children by the
time you were 30. Was that
a conscious decision?
This is going to sound really weird,
even to me now, but I never imagined
there was a choice. I grew up with
my mother, who had four children very
young, and I always imagined that
would be how my life went. I just
thought you had children when you’re
young. [Pauses]. It sounds bizarre, and
I’m not saying it’s right but it never
occurred to me to be older.
Has it hit you now…?
That I had a choice? [Laughs]. Yeah, I
sort of a no-no to be pregnant. People
are afraid of falling off the radar, and
so my actress friends have waited and
waited. You can wait forever really. But
as I say, it’s happening now, just as all
mine are sleeping through!
What do you think you would have
been doing if you weren’t an actress?
Possibly an interior designer or nurse.
I don’t know. It changes week to week,
usually with whichever script I read. It’s
funny, my mum didn’t work and my
sister stays at home with her family
too. I’m a bit of an anomaly.
Did they encourage going into acting?
Oh yes, completely. I mean, they knew
nothing about it – my dad was a taxi
driver, still is. He does the black cabs,
but they let me go to stage school.
Is that where the elocution lessons
came in? [Keeley attended classes
from the age of nine]
Yes, it was just a bit of voice coaching.
It wasn’t like my parents said, “Go
and speak properly, girl!” And it wasn’t
like we were Cockney. We’re from
central London so I had more of
a London accent. I don’t get drunk
and start talking like this [puts on
Cockney accent]. Forget me-self
[laughs]. And at family get-togethers,
I don’t stick out like a sore thumb.
Or at least, I don’t think…
IN NEW ITV1 DRAMA IDENTITY
WITH THE WIRE STAR
AIDAN GILLEN
WITH SPOOKS CO-STAR
AND HUSBAND,
MATTHEW MACFAYDAN
“EVERYONE’S AFRAID OF A BAD
REVIEW – I JUST TOOK IT SO
PERSONALLY. I LET IT GET TO
ME AND I SHOULDN’T HAVE”
Do you enjoy being domesticated?
Oh, I love it. I really do! [Laughs]. I’ve
always got lots of satisfaction out of
building a nest and making things
lovely, but my mum is like that too, and
my sister. And my daughter actually,
but she’s five [laughs]. She’s very keen
and makes the bed occasionally. But
yes, I’m very into my hot-water bottles
and things. We have chickens at home,
and I love knitting. There’s this little
shop near where I live called Mrs
Moons where I’ve had time to go to
lessons. Oh god, I’m so boring! [Roars
with laughter]. Help me!
No, go on! Why do you love knitting?
I think… well, making your life cosy
in that way, it’s something grannies
have taken a lifetime to achieve. So
why not take their lead now?
What about cooking? Are you a pro
in the kitchen?
I’m not brilliant, but Matthew is
suppose as I’ve got older. And it’s quite
topical now – people having six babies
at 59 or whatever – it’s made me think,
‘Crikey, I’ve got a nine-year-old. I’ve got
three children and I’m 33!’ But I love
the fact my son’s up to here now
[measures against her shoulder] and
he puts his arm around me. It’s lovely.
You’ve talked about adopting. Is that
something you’re still considering?
We had a time when we were thinking
about it a lot because we would like
more. But then we both got very busy
and I think it would have been silly. If
you adopt a child you need to put your
entire life into that. It would have
become my full-time job. It’s something
I think about, as I get more sensible.
Are your friends married
with children too?
No. Hah! They’re only just starting to
go down that route. That’s the other
side of it – when you’re an actress it’s
You’ve said previously that the
negative press you received while
starring in Ashes To Ashes mostly
came from men [who claimed her
character was unlikeable]. How did
you deal with that?
My personal flaws, as in the flaws I see
in myself, have part-way been ironed
out through the flak I got for Ashes.
People didn’t like that character being
in that particular show, because she
was a woman and it [Ashes To Ashes’
prequel Life On Mars] had always been
male-dominated. They felt like she
didn’t fit in. So that kept me up at
night. It was one of the worst times in
my life. But looking back, if that’s going
to be one of the worst times in my life,
you know what, I’ve got a nice f***king
life. I’m actually much stronger now
– I wouldn’t be afraid of anything.
What were you afraid of then?
Everybody’s afraid of a bad review.
I wasn’t even afraid, I just took it
so personally. I let it get to me and
I shouldn’t have. But it’s better now.
It’s toughened you up?
It’s toughened me right up [puts on
Cockney accent]. Look how tough I am!
But it makes me think, looking back…
I was so upset. And life’s too
short for that, isn’t it?
Identity starts at 9pm on 5 July on
ITV1 and is available to own on DVD from
16 August
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