The lion fell in love with the lamb

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Helen McCrory has been sharpening her comic timing to portray the other woman in the life of comedy legend Tommy Cooper.
The award-winning actress will play Mary Kay, who was the celebrated clown’s assistant and, for nearly two decades, his mistress.
‘It was an affair that lasted 17 years. She toured with Tommy, and when Mary gave it up, she was told Tommy would fall to pieces without her,’ Helen said.
David Threlfall, of Shameless fame, plays the funnyman magician, and Amanda Redman will portray his wife, Gwen, whom he affectionately called ‘Dove’.
Helen was parachuted in at the last minute after executive producer Andy Harries sent her the script through his Left Bank Pictures company.
Rehearsals start on Monday and director Benjamin Caron rolls the cameras for the two-hour ITV drama, called Tommy, on Sunday.
Helen has been reading Mary’s autobiography and watching as much Tommy Cooper as she can. ‘I adore Tommy — he was the comics’ comic,’ she told me yesterday. 
But she’s also aware of the flipside of those who make us laugh. Simon Nye’s script for Tommy is affectionate, but alludes to a darker side to the man. ‘He used to hit her, but it’s dealt with very lightly in Tommy. We see her with a black eye, but we don’t see the blow,’ says Helen.
She has been wary of going into warts-and-all dramas about famous people: ‘I’ve turned down a few because, actually, these people’s work far outshone some sort of raggedy personal life.’
‘He was concerned about his timing. The joke had to be down to the last second, and he’d run to Mary in the wings and ask: “What time is it?!” Timing was everything. 
‘But to live that life does something to your heart because there’s a certain sort of heightened level you have to be at when you perform.’
McCrory said that reading Mary’s words, and Nye’s screenplay, made her aware of Cooper’s inability to switch off. ‘They would be on a train and he’d be practising new material on passengers,’ she says.
As Helen begins filming, her husband, Damian Lewis, will be in America shooting the third series of Homeland.
She laughed wondering whether she had the guts to pull off one of Cooper’s gags.
She says: ‘When he got out of taxis, he’d press something into the driver’s hand and tell him to have a drink on him.
‘They’d think it was a lovely wodge of fivers… and it turned out to be a tea bag.’
McCrory noted that a comic’s life was often not funny behind the scenes. ‘There’s this feeling of stress and responsibility, as you get older, to be that quick and that funny,’ she says. 
‘Cooper would use a line like: “I bet on a horse at 20 to one and it came in at ten past five.”  There’d be 150 jokes in 15 minutes — he went through material like no other comic. (x)

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