Olivia Colman describes paparazzi ‘meltdown’ that pushed her out of London
Olivia Colman has said that frenzied paparazzi interference outside her London home forced her to move to the countryside.
The Oscar and Bafta-winning actor, who worked professionally since the early 2000s, revealed that photographers waiting outside or following her car “terrified” her and brought her to the brink of a meltdown.
In a new interview with Vogue, Colman, 49, spoke about the shortfalls of fame and recognisability, and how it impacted her decision to leave her home in Peckham, south London, for the leafier surrounds of Norfolk, where she was born.
“Yeah, we’ve moved to the countryside and it’s lovely,” she said, referring to her husband, the screenwriter Ed Sinclair, and their three children: two teens and an eight-year-old.
“It’s where I’m from. We never fell out of love with London,” she explained. “I love London, but it became difficult… Just a**eholes standing outside your front door, following you on the school run.”
After clarifying that she means paparazzi, Colman continued: “Yeah. I was scared. At one point, there were two cars chasing us and I was having a sort of meltdown, terrified. I was crying and they were laughing.”
Colman rose to fame in 2013 when she starred in the ITV crime-drama series Broadchurch. In the years that followed, she has played lead roles in major projects such as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown, and Stuart monarch Queen Anne in The Favourite, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2019.
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Elsewhere in the interview, published on Thursday (16 November), the former Peep Show star spoke about her appreciating the times in her career when she wasn’t working as consistently. Now, she prefers being in private spaces to avoid people treating her differently, or taking unauthorised pictures of her in her daily life.
“People taking what they think is a sneaky photograph. It’s always obvious, you always know, and it’s awful,” she said.
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“Don’t do it. It happened the other day at my kids’ school, a mum took one. You can’t even go: ‘Sorry, don’t do that,’ as then they say, ‘I wasn’t! I didn’t!’ And then you look like a d**k. It’s a shame… I wish I was braver but I’m not.”
Colman will next appear in Wonka, the story of Roald Dahl’s eccentric chocolatier, in cinemas from 8 December.
Olivia Colman has said that frenzied paparazzi interference outside her London home forced her to move to the countryside.
The Oscar and Bafta-winning actor, who worked professionally since the early 2000s, revealed that photographers waiting outside or following her car “terrified” her and brought her to the brink of a meltdown.
In a new interview with Vogue, Colman, 49, spoke about the shortfalls of fame and recognisability, and how it impacted her decision to leave her home in Peckham, south London, for the leafier surrounds of Norfolk, where she was born.
“Yeah, we’ve moved to the countryside and it’s lovely,” she said, referring to her husband, the screenwriter Ed Sinclair, and their three children: two teens and an eight-year-old.
“It’s where I’m from. We never fell out of love with London,” she explained. “I love London, but it became difficult… Just a**eholes standing outside your front door, following you on the school run.”
After clarifying that she means paparazzi, Colman continued: “Yeah. I was scared. At one point, there were two cars chasing us and I was having a sort of meltdown, terrified. I was crying and they were laughing.”
Colman rose to fame in 2013 when she starred in the ITV crime-drama series Broadchurch. In the years that followed, she has played lead roles in major projects such as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown, and Stuart monarch Queen Anne in The Favourite, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2019.
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Elsewhere in the interview, published on Thursday (16 November), the former Peep Show star spoke about her appreciating the times in her career when she wasn’t working as consistently. Now, she prefers being in private spaces to avoid people treating her differently, or taking unauthorised pictures of her in her daily life.
“People taking what they think is a sneaky photograph. It’s always obvious, you always know, and it’s awful,” she said.
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“Don’t do it. It happened the other day at my kids’ school, a mum took one. You can’t even go: ‘Sorry, don’t do that,’ as then they say, ‘I wasn’t! I didn’t!’ And then you look like a d**k. It’s a shame… I wish I was braver but I’m not.”
Colman will next appear in Wonka, the story of Roald Dahl’s eccentric chocolatier, in cinemas from 8 December.
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