The baby-faced Bodyguard... in film with co-star Keeley
‘It was quite a funny moment’
IN their latest roles, they play a politician and her minder who have an illicit affair.
But long before BBC1’s Sunday night drama series Bodyguard, Keeley Hawes and Richard Madden had a very different on-screen dynamic.
In the violent 2000 thriller Complicity, Scots-born Madden – then a freshfaced 13-year-old – appeared in flashback scenes as a teenage abuse victim who kills his abuser. Miss Hawes, then 23, played a married woman who has a fling with a journalist investigating a series of grisly murders of corrupt establishment figures. In one raunchy scene, she and co-star Jonny Lee Miller share a bath after making love.
The film, in which the grown-up version of Madden’s character plays a key role, was based on an Iain Banks novel and also starred Brian Cox, Bill Paterson and Samuel West.
Miss Hawes, 42, said she did not remember having worked with Madden, 32, previously until they began filming Bodyguard.
‘It was quite a funny moment when I realised I’d worked with Richard when he was a child,’ she said.
In Bodyguard, which attracted 6.8million viewers last Sunday, Miss Hawes plays Home Secretary Julia Montague. Following an assassination attempt, she and protection officer David Budd – played by Madden, from Elderslie, Renfrewshire – are given adjoining rooms for security reasons.
Budd enters Miss Montague’s room and undresses her. Despite the intimate scenes, it is unclear what will happen between the pair – as Budd secretly holds a political grudge against her.