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Found what she was looking Eve Hewson says she’s for with plum role in The Luminaries

alongside Penn in This Must Be The Place. Penn played a goth rock star while she played his teenage friend.

She recalled: “I was terrified. People keep saying, ‘She wasn’t star-struck by Sean Penn’. That’s an absolute lie. I was totally petrified to meet Sean.

“I love him as an actor. And I’d never met him until the screen test. I was dressed up in my gear. And he was in his outfit. We just met as our characters. We were asked to turn and face one another. So we did and he said, ‘Hi’. And we looked at one another for a really long time. Absolutely scary.”

While she might not be a household name like Penn, Eve is getting there and The Luminaries firmly takes her out of her famous father’s shadow.

Set during the 1860 gold rush on New Zealand’s South Island, Eve describes it as “Gaslight meets The Girl on the Train with Titanic sprinkled on top”.

She spent six months in New Zealand making the epic adventure as one of the people hoping to make a fortune from gold.

But the period piece, in which she plays Anna Wetherell, wasn’t without its challenges.

She said: “Everybody had a rough time because we were shooting in the middle of summer in New Zealand.

But I had a corset and a crinoline. A crinoline weighs at least 5lb. It’s that wired skirt that goes underneath and makes that shape. So the crinoline tugs on the corset which all pulls down.

“We were shooting on a farm for a lot of it and especially the jail cell which was just like a tarp.

“It was basically, just think of it like a sauna. You are in a black dress chained with your foot to the jail cell all day. I think we were there for like five weeks.

“That was probably the worst and I just sweated through the entire thing all day long. It was soaking wet and it reeked of BO. In all of those scenes I’m sweating profusely.”

Like thousands of others, Eve’s character Anna travels to New Zealand to forge a new life. On the last day of the voyage she meets Emery Staines (Himesh Patel) and it looks like she has found love, but a scheming fortune-teller Lydia Wells (Eva Green) lays a trap to ensure their planned reunion never happens.

Anna’s fortunes begin to fail and she is drawn into a plot involving blackmail, gold and drugs before she is framed for murder.

The planets play a big part in Catton’s story, with Emery the Sun and Anna the Moon. And while you could say her dad is a big star, Eve was in the dark when it came to astrology.

She said: “I don’t really know anything about the planets. I’m not a big astrology person and I don’t know if I believe in it.

“I read my horoscope every now and then just to see if I’m going to get lucky but that’s about it. That whole aspect of the story added a beautiful sort of imagery to their love story, but in terms of pulling character traits from the Moon, I don’t know if that’s possible.” ●The Luminaries starts on Sunday, BBC1, at 9pm.

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