Stonehouse, Britbox’s newest TV drama, is about the disgraced life and bizarre fake death of John Stonehouse, a 1970’s Labor British politician.
Emer Heatley, who plays Stonehouse’s mistress Sheila Buckley, sat down with uInterview’s founder Erik Meers to discuss what it’s like to play an unsympathetic character.
“There are definitely parts where you think ‘how could she possibly do that,’ but there are also moments where you see that there’s a real, genuine love and affection that she has for John to stick with him throughout all of this chaos,” Heatley said. “So I suppose that’s what really helped me as an actor to show how much she kind of loves him, and that’s what drives her to do all of these slightly crazy things.”
Heatley also revealed what working with Matthew Macfayden and Keely Hawes was like.
“Being with them on set,...
Emer Heatley, who plays Stonehouse’s mistress Sheila Buckley, sat down with uInterview’s founder Erik Meers to discuss what it’s like to play an unsympathetic character.
“There are definitely parts where you think ‘how could she possibly do that,’ but there are also moments where you see that there’s a real, genuine love and affection that she has for John to stick with him throughout all of this chaos,” Heatley said. “So I suppose that’s what really helped me as an actor to show how much she kind of loves him, and that’s what drives her to do all of these slightly crazy things.”
Heatley also revealed what working with Matthew Macfayden and Keely Hawes was like.
“Being with them on set,...
- 8/23/2023
- by Hailey Schipper
- Uinterview
Matthew Macfadyen is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in Pride & Predudice, Succession and Stonehouse.
Matthew MacFadyen Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Matthew Macfadyen was born on October 17, 1974 (Matthew Macfadyen: age 48) in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. His parents are Meinir and Martin Macfadyen, a drama teacher and an oil engineer respectively. He attended schools in England, Scotland and Indonesia before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London when he was 17. He finished his schooling in 1995 before taking to the British theatre.
Matthew MacFadyen Biography: Career
Macfadyen started his career on the stage with the company Cheek by Jowl where he had roles in The School for Scandal, Much Ado About Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi. He then went on to play roles in television, such as Hareton Earnshaw in a TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights (1998), Daniel Symon in Perfect Strangers (2001) and...
Matthew MacFadyen Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Matthew Macfadyen was born on October 17, 1974 (Matthew Macfadyen: age 48) in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. His parents are Meinir and Martin Macfadyen, a drama teacher and an oil engineer respectively. He attended schools in England, Scotland and Indonesia before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London when he was 17. He finished his schooling in 1995 before taking to the British theatre.
Matthew MacFadyen Biography: Career
Macfadyen started his career on the stage with the company Cheek by Jowl where he had roles in The School for Scandal, Much Ado About Nothing and The Duchess of Malfi. He then went on to play roles in television, such as Hareton Earnshaw in a TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights (1998), Daniel Symon in Perfect Strangers (2001) and...
- 3/8/2023
- by Hailey Schipper
- Uinterview
Plot: A three-part drama, based on the extraordinary rise and fall of MP John Stonehouse. As a high-flying member of Harold Wilson’s Labour government and a seemingly devoted family man, Stonehouse’s perfect life spirals out of control in the early 1970s amid rumors of fraud and espionage.
Review: There is no shortage of true crime stories that can be adapted into television dramas, but it takes a unique tale that can make such a series funny. Murder and death don’t tend to work well in humorous adaptations, but when a bizarre series of events is so bafflingly strange and involves no one dying, it can appease many audiences. Coming from the United Kingdom, Stonehouse is a darkly hilarious true crime story that was big news in the 1970s but remained a relatively unknown curiosity in the States. This new three-part limited series adapts the exploits of John Stonehouse,...
Review: There is no shortage of true crime stories that can be adapted into television dramas, but it takes a unique tale that can make such a series funny. Murder and death don’t tend to work well in humorous adaptations, but when a bizarre series of events is so bafflingly strange and involves no one dying, it can appease many audiences. Coming from the United Kingdom, Stonehouse is a darkly hilarious true crime story that was big news in the 1970s but remained a relatively unknown curiosity in the States. This new three-part limited series adapts the exploits of John Stonehouse,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
The story of John Stonehouse may be little known stateside, but you almost wouldn’t believe the tale told in BritBox‘s three-part drama Stonehouse spins if it wasn’t based on true events. Following the rise and fall of MP John Stonehouse’s (Succession‘s Matthew Macfadyen) career, the ’70s-set tale examines his climb up the political ladder as a member of Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s (Kevin R. McNally) cabinet through which he forges secret relationships not only with shifty figures in Prague but with his secretary Sheila Buckley (Emer Heatley). These secrets begin to pile up in unfathomable ways to the point where John just can’t take it anymore and he decides to fake his own disappearance by traveling to Miami and continuing on to Melbourne, Australia. Of course, not all will go according to plan. As part of the Labor Party, Macfadyen tells TV Insider,...
- 1/17/2023
- TV Insider
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