Incident happened when the actress while she was shooting 2019 musical Les Misérables and she had to say , ‘I’m so sorry’ after the awful incident
Olivia Colman learned the hard way that you should never work with children – after making a child sob. The old showbiz adage rang true for the actress while she was shooting 2019 musical Les Misérables.
Olivia, who played meanie Madame Thénardier, recalled: “I was meant to hit this little girl. She had padding down her back and I had a belt. I hit her once, half-heartedly, and I burst into tears, ‘I can’t do it, I can’t hit her.’ She was like, ‘No, do it, look, do it,’ and she was hitting herself.
“There was also one little girl, who was the younger version [of the character], who didn’t speak English.
“She started to look like she was crying, and I went, ‘Oh, shut up’ because I thought she was acting. But she actually started to cry. I went, ‘I’m so sorry!’ It was awful.”
Olivia returns to the small screen in Netflix ’s adaptation of Pride And Prejudice. And she’ll also reprise her role as Angela Burr in the follow-up to 2016 spy drama The Night Manager.
And the mum-of-three recalled director Susanne Bier’s advice on the set of the original: “I was massively pregnant, and [Susanne] said, ‘Could you walk less pregnant?’ I was like, ‘No, there’s a head in my pelvis!’”
Before Hollywood fame, Olivia landed the role of PC Doris Thatcher in 2007’s Hot Fuzz. The police officer cracked a number of cheeky one liners throughout the comedy film, which is part of the Cornetto Trilogy.
When Sergeant Angel first meets Doris, he corrects Danny for calling her a “police woman” by quipping: “She’s a police officer. Being a woman has nothing to do with it,” to which she replies: “Oh I don’t know, comes in handy every so often! I could have given you the tour…I’ve been around the station a few times.”
Later on, another hilarious scene shows the force inspecting a car crash. One of the officers noticed that the top came off the vehicle and Colman hilariously responds: “I’ve had my top off in this lay-by,” with a filthy giggle.
When being told not to eat late at night Doris snaps: “I like a midnight gobble,” and while standing over a spit roast pig she jokes: “That’ll be me after a few pints!”
Olivia’s character has become somewhat of a comedy icon and over on Reddit, Hot Fuzz fans have been discussing the actress’ razor-sharp delivery and quick wit. One person wrote: “I don’t believe she had a single line in the entire movie that was not a joke or innuendo,” as another typed: “Colman is a f—ing gem – glad some new folks are getting exposed to here. Check out Peep Show as well.”
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