I have added screencaps from The Soul Keeper.
Note: Due to the nature of the movie, some captures are not suitable for younger fans!
Emilia Fox – who gave birth to daughter Rose last month – was upset that her pregnancy meant she was banned from ‘flying’ in a scene for ‘Merlin’.
Emilia Fox was distraught about having to miss a flying scene in ‘Merlin’
The actress – who gave birth to daughter Rose, her first child with partner Jeremy Gilley, last month – portrays Morgause in the hit BBC1 drama and though she loves doing her own stunts, her pregnancy meant she was unable to tackle anything too physical.
She said: “I loved doing all the sword fighting in the last series and the action sequences and the riding in this series – I really enjoyed the horse riding.
“I couldn’t do all the stunts in this series because of my pregnancy and I was really upset about that because I would have flown in this series. I have always wanted to fly since being a little girl and seeing Peter Pan. This would have been my chance.”
Emilia loves the chance to play a baddie in ‘Merlin’ because of the feeling of power she gets and the way the other characters respond to her.
She explained: “The best thing I think is the licence you get in playing a baddie, and a sorceress at that. Always playing with other characters and their perceptions of you, means you are never quite sure where Morgause’s allegiances lie.
“It’s really, really fun to play, when the role was first offered to me I wanted Morgause to look totally innocent but be completely evil behind it. Although, I always think with baddies they believe that they are doing the right thing.
“And also I think the fun is of course doing the stunts and feeling very powerful.”
Finally we learn the name of her daughter, what a lovely name.
In episode one, A Guilty Mind, Nikki struggles to deal with a case involving the death of a child in violent circumstances. Emilia explains: “The case affects Nikki deeply and personally and looks at the less tangible part of pathology, which is the mind. We are used to the team finding things out through the organs and the body, but of course when it comes to the mind it’s a lot harder to deal with. It’s very hard to deal with your own mind when it’s running away from you.
“Leo and Harry are deeply concerned for Nikki and it touches her at a stage in her life where she is a woman in her thirties, not attached to anyone and she doesn’t have children, so I think it brings all those issues to the surface.”
This is the first time we see Nikki struggling with a case, impacting on her mental health, so how did Emilia prepare for this storyline? She says: “I think part of it was instinctive anyway, because the death of this child is so brutal that I don’t see how if you were connected in any way to a case like this you couldn’t be affected.”
Emilia is taking part in CITV’s Bookaboo, so I’ve added a still from it. Not sure when its airing or aired.
A big congrats from us here, hope Emilia and baby are doing fine.
The actress and her actor boyfriend Jeremy Gilley welcomed their daughter together last week and Fox has debuted her baby girl out of her London home.
British actress Emilia Fox is celebrating after giving birth to a baby daughter. “The Pianist” star announced she was expecting her first child with her actor boyfriend Jeremy Gilley earlier this year.
The couple welcomed their new addition into the world last week and Fox debuted her daughter as she was photographed carrying her baby out of her London home. Fox’s baby joy comes three years after she suffered a miscarriage when she was pregnant by her ex-husband, “Mad Men” actor Jared Harris.
Pic wisely follows the structure of Sally Nicholls’ novel, and treats the chirpy, spiky-haired Sam (Robbie Kay) as a kind of narrator by having him keep a video diary. Sam reveals much about himself when, while making a list of important things about himself, the fact that he has leukemia merits only fourth place. Two other lists — “Things I Want to Do,” and “Questions Nobody Answers” (for example, “Why do children have to die?”) — give the pic its structure.
His parents, Amanda (Emilia Fox) and Daniel (Ben Chaplin), are doing their best, though Daniel is remote and withdrawn. Pic shuttles between the sometimes tense scenes of family life and sections in which Sam sets about fulfilling various dreams, including breaking a world record, riding in an airship and being a teenager.
Sam’s best friend, Felix (Alex Etel), is also afflicted with cancer, and his cousin Kaleigh (Ella Purnell) reps Sam’s romantic interest. As issues of mortality come to the fore, things darken considerably, and the final scenes turn into a satisfying tissue-fest.
Pic as a whole is as winning as its protag. Down-to-earth, fizzing with energy and never merely cute, Kay rarely fails to strike the right note as Sam, whose insights (“If you’re not ill, nobody cares about whether you ride a bike or not”) give the film much of its charm. As Amanda, Fox is given no emotional journey and feels stranded, but Chaplin, in a wonderfully controlled perf, comes into his own after Daniel finds Sam’s diary and decides to become his son’s friend for the rest of his short life.








