Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington make pact to limit time apart

NEW MAGAZINE
January 2, 2015

Abbington insists she is determined to minimise the time she spends away from her partner of 14 years, and will even relocate to New Mexico and New York with the couple's two children, eight-year-old Joe and six-year-old Grace, while Freeman is filming a new movie with Tina Fey in the U.S. in 2015.

She tells You magazine, "Separation is the most difficult thing. It was tough while Martin was away in New Zealand for months filming the three Hobbit movies and bad again during the American TV series Fargo, which took him to Calgary

for five months solid. It's not just the heartbreak involved, it's also the danger that you'll reach a point of thinking. 'Oh, I can do this alone. Why are we together?'

"We've made a promise now to limit our time apart. Martin is in Lithuania for a month and that's doable, but next year he's filming The Taliban Shuffle with Tina Fey for several months in New Mexico and New York. So the kids and I will be going with him for at least part of the time. Yes, of course as actors we love to work, but we love each other and our family so much more."


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Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Bonneville, James McAvoy, Tom Hollander, Ricky Gervais more: Exclusive: Stars shine in 'Muppets' cameos

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Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY 2:02 p.m. EDT March 28, 2014

Tom Hollander and Hugh Bonneville played shady fixers in "Muppets Most Wanted."

Tom Hiddleston, Celine Dion, Sean Combs, Lady Gaga, Zach Galifianakis — it seems everyone wanted to be in Muppets Most Wanted.

The film, which opened March 21, continued the Muppet tradition of great celebrity cameos. Who could forget Steve Martin as a surly waiter in 1979's The Muppet Movie?

"It's the blink-and-you'll-miss-it ones that are really fun," says writer-director James Bobin.

Some of appearances, such as getting Usher to play a wedding usher, are written into the script, says Bobin, while others just seem to happen spontaneously. For example, Bobin knew he needed Sean Combs for a Muppets celebration scene.




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Colin Firth, other stars to read Amazon.com audio books

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by Aislyn Greene on Monday, October 3, 2011, 7:12am PDT

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Wish you could hear Colin Firth or Annette Benning read your favorite book on one of the new Kindle tablets? Amazon.com subsidiary Audible, an audio book company, said it's readying a new line of audio books that will be read by famous actors.

A number of stars are already lined up to read both literary classics and modern fiction, including Colin Firth reading "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene, Samuel L. Jackson reading "A Rage in Harlem" by Chester Himes, and Annette Bening reading "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Wolff
Dustin Hoffman, Naomi Watts and Kim Basinger are all on board as well, reports the New York Times. The actors will help select the books they read, choosing characters and story that appeal to them.

Audible already has a few celebrities reading their own memoirs, including Jane Lynch's "Happy Accidents" and Tina Fey's "Bossypants."

Amazon acquired the company back in 2008. Audible has more than 85,000 selections that can be downloaded to a variety of devices.