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Dominic West Supports Co-Star: “Ruth Wilson Was Right About ‘The Affair'”


The pair co-starred in The Affair, telling the story of a writer's affair with a younger woman.

In an interview with The Times of London, West hesitated to contribute to the discussion, but he lent his support to Wilson, saying: “We talked a lot about it and I suppose I did experience it. In the same interview, West – who went to elite public school Eton attended by royals – said of his performance as the unarguably posh Prince Charles in The Crown, that his real-life wife – Catherine FitzGerald, former Viscountess Lambton, gardener to the upper classes and with her own family castle in Ireland – doesn’t think he does “posh” convincingly. “I’m McNulty, and I’m Jean Valjean [in a TV version of Les Misérables] and I’m Iago [with a broad Yorkshire accent in a theatre production of Othello in 2011].

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