Elizabeth Hurley knows her acting niche. “I normally play manipulative, cunning, morally bankrupt people,” she tells me on this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast. The actor, model and producer says…
“I normally play manipulative, cunning, morally bankrupt people,” she tells me on this week’s “The actor, model and producer says it all began with 2000’s “Bedazzled” when she played the devil opposite Brendan Fraser, and continued with a stint on the original “Gossip Girl” and then her starring role as the queen of England on E!’s “The Royals.” And in“We like to think it’s charming evil, as opposed to just stab you in the eyeball with a pencil evil,” Hurley says.
Hurley’s wedding dress in the movie was provided by Princess Diana’s wedding dress designer Elizabeth Emanuel. “I thought, ‘You know what? We’re making this sweet, charming, romantic Christmas movie. What could be more romantic than using the dress designer of the late Princess of Wales?’” Hurley says.
“Hugh and I lived together in a tiny little one-bedroom flat without a full-length mirror, so I hadn’t even seen the [full] dress until I saw it on the papers the next day,” she recalls. “But of course, people also didn’t know that his movie was going to be a sensation. We were completely and utterly clueless. So the next day when the papers went demented, both about the movie and, bizarrely, about my dress, it was very surprising to both of us.
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