Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman relive fruit fight in ‘The Roses’
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman relive the chaotic fruit fight from “The Roses” and the cooker damage that made it unforgettable.
After a successful 25-year career in film and TV, “The Crown” star Olivia Colman knows what she does and doesn’t like doing on screen. In fact, there is one thing she is very eager to stop doing in character.
“Anything where I have to show any skin,” the Oscar-winning actress quickly replied when asked what she fears in her work during an appearance on the “Good Hang with Amy Poehler” podcast episode that dropped Sept. 16.
Then she started joking around with Poehler, putting on a bashful affectation as she continued, “or pretending to have sex with someone. I don’t like it. I feel like I’m being unfaithful.”
Colman, 51, has been married to her husband Ed Sinclair since 2001.
“Even when they go, ‘You can wear your jeans and a cushion between you.’ I don’t want to do that with someone I don’t know,” she added.
Poehler agreed, but also said, “By the way, bless the people that are good at it.” Colman wholeheartedly agreed, giving a shoutout to on-set intimacy coordinators. She specifically called out Ita O’Brien, the creator of the Intimacy On Set Guidelines, for her helpful advice.
“She told me … ‘Imagine the sun is hitting your face,” Colman said.
The question about her fears came courtesy of her “The Roses” costar Benedict Cumberbatch, who relayed the inquiry to Poehler at the top of the episode.
Besides the feeling of being unfaithful in her work on-camera, Colman seemed fulfilled in her two-decade marriage, citing her husband as the greatest source of humor in her life.
“The thing that makes me laugh more than anything, belly laugh, and it doesn’t happen often enough, is watching my husband fall over or hit his head by accident,” she told Poehler.
In an interview with The Guardian that was published in August, Colman said, “I’m quite in love.” To which Cumberbatch chimed in: “I am too! It’s all great. It’s, y’know, life. And I know Ed annoys you sometimes.”
“Only a bit, and it’s been 30 years,” she retorted. “It’s not bad to be a bit annoyed with each other.”
Contributing: Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY