A happy ending for Karen and her co-star
IN HER latest movie role she plays a troubled author who inadvertently falls in love with her handsome publisher.
And now it looks like a case of life imitating art for former Doctor Who star Karen Gillan, as she appears to have fallen for him in real life as well.
Friends of the pretty actress revealed how she became ‘extremely close’ to her rugged French co-star Stanley Weber during the making of Not Another Happy Ending.
‘They hit it off right away,’ said one. ‘The chemistry between them was sizzling. Even the crew could feel it in the room.
‘But it became obvious there was more to it during the kissing scenes when they carried on kissing well after the director called cut.’
Sources close to the film claim the couple were inseparable off-set as well.
And they revealed the pair, who attended Celtic’s opening SPL clash against Aberdeen together, were ‘very intimate’ at the film’s wrap party last weekend at private members’ bar 29 in Glasgow.
Miss Gillan, 24, described the French hunk, 26, as ‘awesome’ on her Twitter page and urged her fans to follow him.
The source added: ‘During the wrap party they were huddled in a corner alone together for most the night. They looked very, very close.
‘They’d certainly make a beautiful couple – move over Brad and Angelina.’
Filming for Not Another Happy Ending finished last week after nearly a month of shooting in Glasgow.
It was Miss Gillan’s first role since quitting as Doctor Who’s sidekick Amy Pond.
In the film she stars as successful author Jane Lockhart who writes gloomy, but successful, novels.
When she starts to enjoy her new-found wealth and fame, she finds her inspiration dries up and she suffers from writer’s block.
Her publisher, played by Borgia star Weber, goes to extreme lengths to ‘cure’ his client by making her gloomy again, but inadvertently falls in love with her. The film’s producer Claire Mundell said: ‘There was a real buzz on set and the chemistry between Karen and Stanley was crackling as soon as the cameras started rolling.’ The actress dumped her longterm boyfriend, photographer Patrick Green, last year after six years together. The split is believed to have come when she returned from New York after filming the Jean Shrimpton drama for the BBC, called We’ll Take Manhattan.
And in March she was pictured in a clinch with Doctor Who guest star Andrew Brooke. She hooked up with the actor from E4 sitcom Phoneshop while filming scenes in Spain. The source added: ‘It’s lovely that Karen and Stan are getting along so well. We’re all hoping it does have a very happy ending.’