Why wait for Super Saturday? Alice Eve and Gentleman Jack star Lydia sink a pint ... on Boozy Tuesday!
WHILE most of the country had to wait until pubs reopened yesterday to down a pint, two of Britain’s top actresses laughed off lockdown to satisfy their thirst as early as Tuesday.
Alice Eve and Gentleman Jack star Lydia Leonard shared a beer and some gossip on an East London kerb, howling with glee as they did.
Dressed in a black and green checked dress and flat boots, Miss Eve bought the ale from trendy bar The Hunter S.
She and French-born born star Miss Leonard – who played Mariana Lawton, the lesbian lover of Suranne Jones’s lead character in Gentleman Jack – looked delighted to have found a watering hole open for takeaways during the pandemic.
The Hunter S is popular with the hipster crowds of Dalston, and features mounted animal heads and urinals in the shape of open lips.
Miss Leonard and Miss Eve, both 38, have been friends since they started out as young actresses in the late 1990s. Miss Eve, the daughter of actor Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan, star of the Gold Blend advert, has had a busy lockdown. In May she moved out of the West London flat she shared with her brother George to relocate to her own home nearby. The Oxford-educated actress, who splits her time between London and Los Angeles, spent months living with her younger sibling. In 2017, Miss Eve split from her teenage sweetheart after three years of marriage. She had met Alex Cowper-Smith, now a financier, while they were both students at the exclusive Westminster School.