Laurence Fox: when I met Billie Piper, it was just ‘wow’

March 21st, 2008 admin Posted in News |

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.

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