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The truth hurts

Michelle Keegan on her role as a grieving wife who discovers things aren't as they seem - but can she trust her own senses?

FOOL ME ONCE
From Monday, Netflix

Michelle Keegan may have left Our Girl behind, but she’s back in military uniform for Netflix’s latest thriller — and it’s a dream come true for the ex-Coronation Street star.

The 36-year-old stars in an adaptation of Harlan Coben's Fool Me Once, playing Maya, an army pilot who’s grieving her late husband Joe [Richard Armitage] and balancing work with motherhood.

But when Maya spots her supposedly dead spouse on the nanny cam, she tries to unearth the truth about Joe’s death — and his wealthy, secretive family.

“Harlan writes characters that are well defined but very human,” Michelle says. “Maya is an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances —and look at me, I’m an ordinary girl talking about being in a Netflix show! It’s a dream.”

Michelle found filming the series incredibly “intense” and “emotional”, particularly as she had to face her fear of heights to fly in a helicopter.

“The helicopter had a glass bottom,” she says. “I was terrified but I had no choice. I shut myself in and off we went.

“We flew over my house, which was surreal,” adds Michelle, who lives in an Essex mansion with her reality star husband Mark Wright. “The pilot said, ‘Do you want to fly it? It’s easy, just look at the horizon,’ so I did! I can now put that on my CV!”

Michelle’s time on Our Girl — BBC One’s military drama - came in handy when playing Maya, who is haunted by her time serving abroad.

“I met people in the military who talked about PTSD and what it was like to integrate themselves into civilian life. Maya’s quite disconnected from the people around her. She finds it difficult to play the suburban wife and mother.”

Maya’s life is made even harder by Joe’s cold and interfering mother, Judith, played by Joanna Lumley.

“She's a psychiatrist and she’s in this rich family,” says Joanna, 77. “The family is entitled and pretty dreadful, but they can be charming.

“Michelle and I adore each other. She’s the size of a sparrow so I’d let her hop on my finger,” she jokes.

Joanna admits she was influenced to take the role by her Absolutely Fabulous co-star Jennifer Saunders, who had previously starred in another Harlan Coben series.
“Jennifer was in The Stranger and I was quite jealous,” she laughs. “She sent me a photo of herself with a bullet through the brain.”

With Joanna and Michelle’s showdown scenes dense with dialogue, Joanna would stay up late to learn her lines.

“The thing that keeps you awake at night is if you’ve not done your homework,” she says. “If you’re not prepared, it’s terrifying. If you’ve got the lines, you can dance on a pin.”

While the star-studded cast includes BAFTA winner Adeel Akhtar, Peaky Blinders’ Emmett J Scanlan and Hijack’s Hattie Morahan, the leads couldn't get enough of their little co-star Thea, who played Maya’s daughter.

Richard, 52, says, “Thea thought Michelle was her mummy by the end! They say, ‘Don’t work with children or animals,’ but that’s wrong —they’re spontaneous and you can’t be fake around them.”

Michelle adds, “She was so confident, she knew her lines and cues. Sometimes we’d do scenes without her and we could hear her shouting upstairs — she wanted to get down on the floor with us all.”

Young Thea’s excitable energy became a problem when filming Joe’s funeral scenes, however. “She was swinging about like a gibbon,” Joanna laughs. “She tried to get into the grave.”

With Fool Me Once arriving on New Year’s Day, its stars will be watching — although they may be feeling worse for wear after ringing in 2024.

“I plan to be unconscious,” Richard laughs.

Joanna will be cleaning up after hosting a party the night before. “I'll be sweeping and mopping,” she says. “But my husband [Stephen Barlow] will be mad keen to see it.”

Michelle adds, “I'll be made to binge it as my mum and brother will be with us. I’m not watching episode one again, though — I'll have a bath while they watch that!”

WORDS: LAUREN MORRIS PHOTOS: NETFLIX

 

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