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Helen and Damian Read Poetry at Hay Festival

In Honor of Josephine Hart Poetry Hour

by Gingersnap4Helen | helen-mccrory.com | May 29, 2013

source: telegraph.co.uk

McCrory and Lewis at the Hay Festival 2013 source: telegraph.co.uk

The McCrory-Lewis household has long been advocates of the Josephine Hart Poetry Hour. Here Helen and Damian attend Hay Festival in 2013, both in celebration of Josephine Hart and the revival of poetry reading tradition she established at the Festival. If you want to hear them read at Hay Festival, an audience member recorded the Hay Festival reading and posted it here. Helen and Damian read a programme of Byron, Keats and Shelley.

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Helen McCrory: ‘Most of the Attention I Get is From Younger Men’

Playing a Mature Woman with a Youthful Lover

by Kate Kellaway  | The Guardian |  April 14, 2013
Helen McCroryIn her latest film Helen McCrory is once again playing a mature woman with a youthful lover. And why not, she asks? Though in real life, they’d have to fight off her husband, Damian Lewis, aka Brody from Homeland. Helen McCrory: ‘I’ve become more confident as I have got older.’ 

It’s a good thing in an actor to know how to make an entrance, and Helen McCrory does. She arrives late – dashing in every sense. It’s not possible to walk into a room unobserved wearing a coat like hers: the colour of wet sand, with fur cuffs and lapels. Nor can it pass uncommented upon. Is it as comfortable as it is beautiful? “Comfortable on me as it was on the fox,” she says, with an air of self-mocking defiance, shrugging inside it: “It’s from Paris,” she adds, settling into the red leather corner banquette in Colbert, Sloane Square – a cafe engaged in a more doomed attempt than hers at recalling Paris.

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