Laurence Fox#58; when I met Billie Piper#44; it was just #145;wow#39;
March 2nd, 2008, 1:02 am Hobbies Ideas
Morse was a mystery. At least, he started out that way. By the end of Inspector Morse’s 13- year-run, we had more or less got the hang of why the over-educated detective so rarely got laid. Now, with Lewis, the series’ successor, hitting its stride, there is a new mystery for viewers. What’s with Hathaway, Inspector Lewis’s tall, blond, theologically inclined sidekick? What killed his sex life? I don’t have dates, he told his superior on Sunday.What does Hathaway do to his colleagues? Lace their tea with bromide? And what of the actor who so compellingly plays him, 29-year-old Laurence Fox? He was so buff, a female colleague mourns, fondly recalling his full-frontal nudity in a thriller called The Hole seven years ago. But in recent years he has played loser after loser in love. In last year’s Becoming Jane, a film that rebooted Jane Austen as a Hampshire femme fatale, he played nice but unfanciable Mr Wisley, jilted by Jane. Then in ITV’s A Room with a View he was Cecil Vyse, not a name to win the heart of someone with a Bond girl moniker such as Lucy Honeychurch. So from buff to not so buff, I suggest when we meet in his cottage in rural West Sussex. Yes! What happened to me? Maybe I’ve convinced myself that I’m not leading man material. With Becoming Jane they wanted me to be another part who was a bit jokey and buff but I didn’t have any interest in it. I quite liked the concept of going, �Maybe there is an alternative for everybody. Here is this shy guy who’d like to be able to express himself but can’t.’ Which is probably more like me anyway. He has scrunched his long body up into an armchair. Suddenly he unfolds it. Actually, bollocks! I speak shit constantly. Fox - rugby club T-shirt, oversized boots - is one of those public school drop-outs whose speciality is effortless inferiority. He can afford to be self-deprecating about the buff business, for, in real life, he got the girl. On New Year’s Eve he married Billie Piper - the nation’s Belle de Jour, Dr Who’s Rose, and Chris Evans’s ex. Crudely tattooed on his left wrist is Mrs Fox 31-12-07, a memento of their honeymoon in Mexico. Drunken moment in Playa del Carmen. And she’s got �Mr Fox’. But don’t tell the agent.
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