Matthew Macfadyen appears with real-life wife Keeley Hawes in ITV 演劇 Stonehouse - 20 years after 落ちるing in love on the 始める,決める of Spooks

Matthew Macfayden says his 業績/成果 as 不名誉d 政治家,政治屋 John Stonehouse 借りがあるs more than a little to his multi-award winning turn as Tom Wambsgans in Succession.

'There was definitely some cross-pollination and 採掘 of Tom going on when it (機の)カム to playing Stonehouse,' says Matthew, a BAFTA and Emmy 勝利者 for playing Tom, the worm that turns, in Succession.

'Both characters like 存在 近づく 力/強力にする ― and both are grotesques.'

Macfadyen plays the lead in ITVX's three-part 演劇 Stonehouse, the 驚くべき/特命の/臨時の story of the 労働 MP who 偽のd his own death in 1974.

New: The John Stonehouse affair is being recreated by ITV with Matthew Macfadyen, 48, playing the disgraced Labour politician in a three-part drama ? with his real-life wife Keeley Hawes, 46, as the MP?s sp
urned spouse

New: The John Stonehouse 事件/事情/状勢 is 存在 recreated by ITV with Matthew Macfadyen, 48, playing the 不名誉d 労働 政治家,政治屋 in a three-part 演劇 ? with his real-life wife Keeley Hawes, 46, as the MP’s 拒絶するd spouse

'It remains to be seen how 効果的な my 描写 will be ― I just jump in and hope for the best!' he joked.

His real-life wife, Keeley Hawes, plays the 政治家,政治屋's wife Barbara in the 演劇, which debuts on ITVX in January.

This will be the first time the couple have appeared on 審査する together since 2002, when they were co-星/主役にするs in Spooks, and fell in love.

The couple, who 株 children Maggie, 17, and Ralph, 16, later starred in 2007 comedy Death at a Funeral together.?

Sweet: This will be the first time the couple have appeared on screen together since 2002, when they were co-stars in Spooks, and fell in love

甘い: This will be the first time the couple have appeared on 審査する together since 2002, when they were co-星/主役にするs in Spooks, and fell in love

Actor Matthew and his wife Keeley?have been married for 18 years and she 以前 said they had to cast aside the familiarities of their real-life happy marriage to play the parts.

The actress 主張するs their union is the 完全にする opposite to that of 政治家,政治屋 John and Barbara.

She told the Mirror: 'We have worked together before, but not for several years. And so when this (機の)カム up, it seemed like the perfect 事業/計画(する) on so many levels really, mostly because the Stonehouses are so dif ferent to Matthew and I and to our 関係.?

Couple: Actor Matthew and his wife Keeley have been married for 18 years and she previously said they had to cast aside the familiarities of their real-life happy marriage to play the parts
Family: The couple share children Maggie, 17, and Ralph, 16

Couple: Actor Matthew and his wife Keeley have been married for 18 years and she 以前 said they had to cast aside the familiarities of their real-life happy marriage to play the parts

'So it’s nice to see us, I think, and 利益/興味ing for people who may know that we are married to see us as the "other" couple.'

She told Matthew: 'It was really wonderful. It was very jolly, wasn’t it?'

He 答える/応じるd: 'Yeah, it was very difficult working with Keeley.

'She’s... it was hard. It was hard. No, that’s a silly answer. It was joyful working with Keeley. It was nice, wasn’t it?'

Stonehouse, which will 空気/公表する 早期に next year, tells how the former 閣僚 大臣 in the Wilson 政府 偽のd his death in 1974 and ran off with his 長官 Sheila Buckley.

The MP, who was 申し立てられた/疑わしい to have been a 秘かに調査する for the Czechs,?left his 着せる/賦与するs on a beach in Miami and swam into the sea.

He was 推定するd 溺死するd but a month later, as his wife Barbara and three young children 嘆く/悼むd, he was 逮捕(する)d in Australia where he was living under a 誤った 指名する with his mistress. He was 刑務所,拘置所d for seven years.

He married 行方不明になる Buckley, played by Emer Heatley, and died in 1988.

Telling the tale: Stonehouse tells how the former cabinet minister in the Wilson government faked his death in 1974 and ran off with his secretary Sheila Buckley (John Stoneh
ouse pictured in 1981)

Telling the tale: Stonehouse tells how the former 閣僚 大臣 in the Wilson 政府 偽のd his death in 1974 and ran off with his 長官 Sheila Buckley (John Stonehouse pictured in 1981)