Lily’s looking lovelorn on the bridge of sighs
LAST year was full of drama for Lily James, on and off the screen – and these striking photographs hint at the heartache that has recently buffeted the screen beauty. Leaning on London’s Battersea bridge with her face in her hands and hair swirling in the biting wind, she cut a solemn, solitary figure in 2020’s final week. Dressed in a grey tweed coat and vampish blood-red lipstick and matching nail polish, she seemed lost in thought, perhaps recalling a tumultuous year that saw her romantically linked to her married co-star Dominic West after they were spotted canoodling in Rome. The brouhaha that followed came after her heart-wrenching split from Doctor Who star Matt Smith at the end of their four-year relationship.
Thankfully for Ms James, 31, her downcast demeanour was part of her latest job filming her new movie, What’s Love Got To Do With It?, a romantic comedy written by Jemima Khan.
It is thought to be her first role since she was seen kissing West, 51, her co-star on a BBC adaptation of novel The Pursuit Of Love, in October while his wife Catherine FitzGerald stayed at their Gloucestershire home. The actor and his wife later put on a show of unity for photographers.
Ms James is starring alongside Dame Emma Thompson in the new movie, which revolves around cross-cultural clashes over love and marriage, with filming split between London and South Asia.