I love work but it’s important to come away from it and be quiet..i just get on with my life
Actress Jessie on giving Shakespeare a Kerry twist
Prince Charles in The Crown, has been a friend for more than a decade.
Jessie said: “I think he’s such an incredible actor.
“We’re great friends. We have known each other for about 10 years. At a certain point, we lived close together and we were kind of just out of college.”
She added she believes their friendship could have helped with the chemistry on screen.
Jessie said: “I guess it does help, I love him with all my heart.
“I think when you have a friendship, and a trust, you know, you can move to the edge of the cliff, you can push each other and know that you’re safe with each other and have respect for each other.”
During the pandemic, she has been working steadily with her previous movie The Lost Daughter filmed in Greece over the summer alongside Mescal and Olivia Colman.
Jessie laughs off suggestions she could give the Kildare actor advice on the acting world, saying: “Oh no, he can give me advice. He seems much better at it than I am.
“He’s gorgeous, he’s like a brother, it’s so exciting when you see someone be so brilliant and be such a lovely person alongside that.
“And I can’t wait to see what he does next. I think he’s an incredible man and an incredible talent.”
The busy actress got home at the start of the pandemic for one of her longest breaks in Kerry since she first moved to London more than a decade ago.
She said: “The first pandemic I finished filming in Chicago, and I came straight to Kerry for six weeks.
“But I was meant to go out at Christmas time, then literally, we finished filming on the 22nd and England went into lockdown again, so I had to cancel my trip. But I’m missing it, I’m missing my family.” But Jessie feels very lucky to have been working for some of the pandemic. She said: “I ended up having to go back to Chicago to finish Fargo so I did about a month there – two weeks of quarantine and two weeks of filming. “Then Greece was the other job that I managed to do, which was great.” During the filming of Romeo and Juliet, she spoke of the sense of community among those she worked with, saying: “We were in a bubble, people were living in housing together. You don’t go anywhere else or do anything else. “They were brilliant. I guess never in our lifetime will we ever experience something so universally communal.” National Theatre’s Romeo & Juliet will premiere on Sky Arts and NOW today at 9pm.