Durrells cast make big waves on Corfu

KEELEY HAWES has said that she and the cast of The Durrells are now recognised by Corfu’s residents after filming three series on the island.

The actress, inset, plays the lead character in the ITV drama series, a widowed mother who moves her children to the Greek island, and also said that some fans of the show go out of their way to locate her during filming.

Speaking of the stir filming has caused to locals, Hawes said: “People are always very pleased to see us.

“And now the series has been going for a few years, when people see the production trucks, they know exactly what it is. There’s lots of shouts of, ‘Oh Mrs Durrell, Mrs Durrell!’ “It’s just very nice. Always a really positive thing.” She added: “Sometimes people have been looking for us. I went to Corfu Airport to go home for the weekend and was queuing to get on the plane when a lady came up to me with her little girl and said, ‘We’ve been searching for you for 10 days and now we’ve found you!’” The comedy-drama adaptation of writer and naturalist Gerald Durrell’s childhood memoir My Family And Other Animals, and its two sequels, sees Hawes play Gerald’s mother Louisa. She is not the only star to have noticed an increase in attention on Corfu. Callum Waterhouse, who plays Louisa’s son Leslie, said he is more likely to be recognised on the island than in the UK.