believing that it’s more like a business arrangement than an act of love. He’s known people who are together for years but split up after getting married.
‘I’ve not been to many weddings but not that long ago I was asked to do a reading at a wedding and I couldn’t do it. It was really embarrassing,’ he admitted in 2012 to Douban.com journalist Siobhan Synnot. ‘It was impossible for me to get through without breaking down. It took me about twenty minutes to do and in the end one of my brothers had to get up and put his arm around my shoulder for moral support before I could do it. I’m sure everyone thought I was just another luvvie, auditioning for a role.’
Both Freeman’s and his Abbington’s respective careers were flourishing and they have always supported each other’s work, although the latter has admitted she does get the odd wave ofinsecurity and it was during the making of The Good Night , where Freeman was cast opposite two gorgeous Hollywood women, that she got a tad jealous.
‘I was eight-and-a-half months’ pregnant and bigger than a house,’ Abbington confessed to the Daily Mail’ s Vicky Power. ‘And Penelope’s so beautiful and talented, who wouldn’t fancy her?’
Even though Freeman’s fame has far eclipsed Abbington’s, he has not developed an ego, nor allowed others to treat her poorly.
‘But he always says, “And this is my girlfriend,”’ Abbington said to the Mail ’s Vicki Power. ‘Only recently some girl came up to him and shoved me out of the way. And he said “Excuse me, this is my girlfriend, don’t push her out of the way.”’
Martin Freeman had become an unlikely sex symbol along with such fellow actors as Brit Simon Pegg and American Seth Rogen.
He spoke to Nerve.com ’s Alexis Tirado and described how he felt about this: ‘As soon as you’re branded anything, that’s not great. It’s just another lazy way of marketing people. If you look out your window, most people in the world don’t look like Brad Pitt, but they all have wives. The whole idea of, “Paul Giamatti is kind of sexy.” Well, yeah he’s sexy. Ask his fucking wife or anyone he’s ever laid.’
He continued, ‘Is it surprising? No, because attraction doesn’t come from abs and pecs. It comes from somewhere else altogether. If Penélope Cruz was a shit actress, no one would fancy her. It’s that simple. Because the actresses who are beautiful and act like shit are going to be forgotten in about five days. So it’s a double-edged sword, because people are like,“Hey, you’re sexy! But you’re kind of ugly!” I’m not supposed to be happy about that.’
Freeman later starred in the Gavin Claxton written and directed film The All Together , released on 11 May 2007. It is a British comedy film starring Martin in the lead role as a hacked-off TV producer and aspiring screenwriter named Chris, who has a distaste for British gangster films. He leaves his flatmate Bob (Velibor Topic) in charge of showing estate agents around the house that he is trying to sell. Chris is concerned that Bob will spend all day in the basement playing loud music and miss the estate agent’s call but Chris asks him to listen out for the doorbell anyway and show anyone around who visits. Bob promises Chris he will do that. While the screenwriter struggles with a day at work, Bob takes his instructions rather too literally and allows anyone who comes calling inside the house to look around. That includes a young British fella (played by Danny Dyer) and an American (played by Corey Johnston). When Chris returns home that evening, he finds his flatmate, four estate agents, two Jehovah’s Witnesses and a children’s entertainer held hostage by the Brit and American: two archetypal gangsters that could be straight out of a British gangster film. It’s hardly taxing stuff and many of the jokes fall flat but it was good to see Freeman in a lead role, even if it was with Danny Dyer, an actor whose
‘I’ve not been to many weddings but not that long ago I was asked to do a reading at a wedding and I couldn’t do it. It was really embarrassing,’ he admitted in 2012 to Douban.com journalist Siobhan Synnot. ‘It was impossible for me to get through without breaking down. It took me about twenty minutes to do and in the end one of my brothers had to get up and put his arm around my shoulder for moral support before I could do it. I’m sure everyone thought I was just another luvvie, auditioning for a role.’
Both Freeman’s and his Abbington’s respective careers were flourishing and they have always supported each other’s work, although the latter has admitted she does get the odd wave ofinsecurity and it was during the making of The Good Night , where Freeman was cast opposite two gorgeous Hollywood women, that she got a tad jealous.
‘I was eight-and-a-half months’ pregnant and bigger than a house,’ Abbington confessed to the Daily Mail’ s Vicky Power. ‘And Penelope’s so beautiful and talented, who wouldn’t fancy her?’
Even though Freeman’s fame has far eclipsed Abbington’s, he has not developed an ego, nor allowed others to treat her poorly.
‘But he always says, “And this is my girlfriend,”’ Abbington said to the Mail ’s Vicki Power. ‘Only recently some girl came up to him and shoved me out of the way. And he said “Excuse me, this is my girlfriend, don’t push her out of the way.”’
Martin Freeman had become an unlikely sex symbol along with such fellow actors as Brit Simon Pegg and American Seth Rogen.
He spoke to Nerve.com ’s Alexis Tirado and described how he felt about this: ‘As soon as you’re branded anything, that’s not great. It’s just another lazy way of marketing people. If you look out your window, most people in the world don’t look like Brad Pitt, but they all have wives. The whole idea of, “Paul Giamatti is kind of sexy.” Well, yeah he’s sexy. Ask his fucking wife or anyone he’s ever laid.’
He continued, ‘Is it surprising? No, because attraction doesn’t come from abs and pecs. It comes from somewhere else altogether. If Penélope Cruz was a shit actress, no one would fancy her. It’s that simple. Because the actresses who are beautiful and act like shit are going to be forgotten in about five days. So it’s a double-edged sword, because people are like,“Hey, you’re sexy! But you’re kind of ugly!” I’m not supposed to be happy about that.’
Freeman later starred in the Gavin Claxton written and directed film The All Together , released on 11 May 2007. It is a British comedy film starring Martin in the lead role as a hacked-off TV producer and aspiring screenwriter named Chris, who has a distaste for British gangster films. He leaves his flatmate Bob (Velibor Topic) in charge of showing estate agents around the house that he is trying to sell. Chris is concerned that Bob will spend all day in the basement playing loud music and miss the estate agent’s call but Chris asks him to listen out for the doorbell anyway and show anyone around who visits. Bob promises Chris he will do that. While the screenwriter struggles with a day at work, Bob takes his instructions rather too literally and allows anyone who comes calling inside the house to look around. That includes a young British fella (played by Danny Dyer) and an American (played by Corey Johnston). When Chris returns home that evening, he finds his flatmate, four estate agents, two Jehovah’s Witnesses and a children’s entertainer held hostage by the Brit and American: two archetypal gangsters that could be straight out of a British gangster film. It’s hardly taxing stuff and many of the jokes fall flat but it was good to see Freeman in a lead role, even if it was with Danny Dyer, an actor whose
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