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Luminaries lovers had intense four-year relationsh­ip after meeting on film set

- BY HALINA WATTS Showbiz Editor

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We can reveal former Bond girl Eva and her co-star enjoyed an intense four-year relationsh­ip. They fell for each other after starring in 2005 epic Kingdom of Heaven. But the couple split in 2009, with Eva saying: “It can be difficult to keep a relationsh­ip going when you’re apart, filming.”

Now the former lovebirds have been thrown together in dramatic TV scenes.

In the third episode of BBC hit The Luminaries, viewers saw Eva’s villainous character Lydia Wells expressing her love for scheming Francis Carver, alias Csokas.

She is then seen cradling the shirtless hunk, 53. A show source said: “Their chemistry was electric. You can tell they have had a very close relationsh­ip.”

When asked if they were back together, the pair – who also played man and wife in 2014’s Sin City 2 – declined to comment.

But in a recent interview Eva, 39, suggested she was spending lockdown alone in Normandy – and said she likes nothing more than curling up with her

Eva and Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven, also starring Csokas, above “ridiculous­ly clever and sensitive” miniature some of my characters have. I am a courageous schnauzer, Winston. Eva shot to fame as person as well but too polite, perhaps. Vesper Lynd in 2006 Bond “I’m not the most social movie, Casino Royale. person. I wish I could be more

She has also starred in Tim outgoing, but it’s just not me.” Burton films Dark Shadows and Eva and twin sister Joy were Miss Peregrine’s Home for born in Paris. Dad Walter was Peculiar Children, and the TV a Swedish dentist and mum series Penny Dreadful. Marlène a French actress.

But Eva says the flamboyant Marlène still frets about Eva, characters on screen are a far who is now based in London, cry from her true persona. chasing her dreams in the

She explains: “Lots of people murky world of Hollywood. see me as either the girl from “She worries,” Eva said. “It’s Bond, or the ‘gothic’ person, but a ruthless business. She just neither is representa­tive of all my work, or wants me to be happy.” of me. I sometimes wish I had the balls that halina.watts@mirror.co.uk

You can see they were close... the chemistry is electric SHOW SOURCE AFTER FILMING SCREEN CLINCH

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