{"id":117467,"date":"2024-08-10T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T10:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/lesley-manville-looking-forward-to-kissing-mark-strong\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T10:01:31","slug":"lesley-manville-looking-forward-to-kissing-mark-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/lesley-manville-looking-forward-to-kissing-mark-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesley Manville &#8216;looking forward&#8217; to kissing Mark Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-08-10\" datetime=\"1723284091\" pubdate=\"\">10 August 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lesley Manville can&#8217;t wait to kiss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/mark-strong\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,mark-strong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Strong<\/a> &#8220;eight times a week&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Lesley Manville &#8216;looking forward&#8217; to kissing Mark Strong<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old actress &#8211; who played Princess Margaret in the later series of Netflix show &#8216;The Crown&#8217; &#8211; will co-star with Strong, 61, in a new stage adaptation of &#8216;Oedipus&#8217; in London&#8217;s West End and she is excited about getting up close and personal with the hunky actor.<\/p>\n<p>She told The Mirror: &#8220;I\u2019m looking forward to kissing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/mark-strong\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,mark-strong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Strong<\/a> on stage eight times a week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leslie also revealed her ambition to play Meryl Streep&#8217;s younger sister, saying: &#8220;I want to play Meryl Streep\u2019s younger sister, and I think I could! She is great. She seems like a really good laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leslie also revealed she didn&#8217;t have a lot of confidence at the beginning of her career and was left feeling &#8220;exposed and vulnerable&#8221; when working on 1981 play &#8216;Rita, Sue And Bob Too&#8217;, about a man sleeping with two underage teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;We were very exposed. Our modesty was kind of intact but vulnerable. It should have been different but it wasn\u2019t unusual for that time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, things have changed and Leslie is happy that women of all ages are now portrayed as &#8220;fabulous&#8221; on stage and screen.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;Women are seeing actresses of an age being fabulous. I don\u2019t dress inappropriately but I want the freedom to dress how I\u2019d like.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Fortunately, some parts that I now play represent women who are able to say I am this age, yes I\u2019m still sexually active, yes I want to dress how I want, yes I want to be thought of bold and brave and outrageous if we want to be. It\u2019s so boring otherwise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/lesley-manville-looking-forward-kissing-mark-strong-1404379.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 August 2024 Lesley Manville can&#8217;t wait to kiss Mark Strong &#8220;eight times a week&#8221;. Lesley Manville &#8216;looking forward&#8217; to kissing Mark Strong The 68-year-old actress &#8211; who played Princess Margaret in the later series of Netflix show &#8216;The Crown&#8217; &#8211; will co-star with Strong, 61, in a new stage adaptation of &#8216;Oedipus&#8217; in London&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7088,9100],"class_list":{"0":"post-117467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-lesley-manville","9":"tag-mark-strong"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}