What could match the profound existential terror of another birthday?
Jumping out of a goddamn plane is what.
😎
#whosaysyoucanonlyflydragons?
#freeeeeeeeeefaaaalllliiiinnnggggg #🥳
#myfacialexpressionstellyouallyouneedtoknow
#mymothermyhero #birthdaybluestakeapunch
Thank you Hinton Sky Diving for the most exhilarating experience of my life! Hinton Skydiving Centre
What could match the profound existential terror of another birthday?
Jumping out of a goddamn plane is what.
😎
#whosaysyoucanonlyflydragons?
#freeeeeeeeeefaaaalllliiiinnnggggg #🥳
#myfacialexpressionstellyouallyouneedtoknow
#mymothermyhero #birthdaybluestakeapunch
Thank you Hinton Sky Diving for the most exhilarating experience of my life! Hinton Skydiving Centre
What could match the profound existential terror of another birthday?
Jumping out of a goddamn plane is what.
😎
#whosaysyoucanonlyflydragons?
#freeeeeeeeeefaaaalllliiiinnnggggg #🥳
#myfacialexpressionstellyouallyouneedtoknow
#mymothermyhero #birthdaybluestakeapunch
Thank you Hinton Sky Diving for the most exhilarating experience of my life! Hinton Skydiving Centre
What could match the profound existential terror of another birthday?
Jumping out of a goddamn plane is what.
😎
#whosaysyoucanonlyflydragons?
#freeeeeeeeeefaaaalllliiiinnnggggg #🥳
#myfacialexpressionstellyouallyouneedtoknow
#mymothermyhero #birthdaybluestakeapunch
Thank you Hinton Sky Diving for the most exhilarating experience of my life! Hinton Skydiving Centre
Ted (loook into his eyes) and I, wanted to let you know that 2021 is going to be what it will be, less making resolutions and more breathing our way through every damn beautiful day we get given on planet Earth.
Oh and this photo is what happens when you’re shooting a @clinique campaign and someone feels left out. Turns out he’s a born poser, just like his mamma,😍🥸🐶🕺 #tedknowsaboutlife #stepandbreathe
#happynewtomorrowbeauties #💪🏻
Lockdown or not apparently I will keep baking…. 😎💁♀️
Yup. I bought edible glitter spray. And yup I highly recommend it. (Works on porridge, hell it even works on ted)
#👩🍳
The only thing this pup can’t do is make me breakfast in bed.
#🐶
#❤️
#bringyourownpup
#inmyheadthelittlespoon
The only thing this pup can’t do is make me breakfast in bed.
#🐶
#❤️
#bringyourownpup
#inmyheadthelittlespoon
This is something I care deeply about, and a problem that is everywhere, but behind closed doors.
For far too many home isn’t a safe place for those living with domestic abuse. I want to reach out and connect to anyone reading this who may feel scared in their own homes during this time.
At home should not mean at risk – we support you. #YouAreNotAlone.
If you, or anyone you know is at risk of, or experiencing domestic abuse, you can leave your home to seek refuge. The police will respond to your calls and support services remain available.
Call 999 if you are in immediate danger. If you can’t speak and are calling from a mobile, listen to the operator and, when prompted, dial 55 to be connected to the police who will help.
If you suspect a neighbour or someone you know is currently experiencing domestic abuse please do call 999 and let them take the situation forward.
Especially at christmas time we all need to play our part in supporting our friends, family, neighbours and communities at this time. No-one should be scared of their partner or family member. There is #NoExcuseForAbuse. Let’s do what we can to look after each other.
Find support at gov.uk/domestic-abuse
This is something I care deeply about, and a problem that is everywhere, but behind closed doors.
For far too many home isn’t a safe place for those living with domestic abuse. I want to reach out and connect to anyone reading this who may feel scared in their own homes during this time.
At home should not mean at risk – we support you. #YouAreNotAlone.
If you, or anyone you know is at risk of, or experiencing domestic abuse, you can leave your home to seek refuge. The police will respond to your calls and support services remain available.
Call 999 if you are in immediate danger. If you can’t speak and are calling from a mobile, listen to the operator and, when prompted, dial 55 to be connected to the police who will help.
If you suspect a neighbour or someone you know is currently experiencing domestic abuse please do call 999 and let them take the situation forward.
Especially at christmas time we all need to play our part in supporting our friends, family, neighbours and communities at this time. No-one should be scared of their partner or family member. There is #NoExcuseForAbuse. Let’s do what we can to look after each other.
Find support at gov.uk/domestic-abuse
This is something I care deeply about, and a problem that is everywhere, but behind closed doors.
For far too many home isn’t a safe place for those living with domestic abuse. I want to reach out and connect to anyone reading this who may feel scared in their own homes during this time.
At home should not mean at risk – we support you. #YouAreNotAlone.
If you, or anyone you know is at risk of, or experiencing domestic abuse, you can leave your home to seek refuge. The police will respond to your calls and support services remain available.
Call 999 if you are in immediate danger. If you can’t speak and are calling from a mobile, listen to the operator and, when prompted, dial 55 to be connected to the police who will help.
If you suspect a neighbour or someone you know is currently experiencing domestic abuse please do call 999 and let them take the situation forward.
Especially at christmas time we all need to play our part in supporting our friends, family, neighbours and communities at this time. No-one should be scared of their partner or family member. There is #NoExcuseForAbuse. Let’s do what we can to look after each other.
Find support at gov.uk/domestic-abuse
I love my #nhs and here is a book where I will tell you the many ways in which I love The NHS… (spoiler- they literally saved my life)
@amateuradam knows how beloved our magical institution of free healthcare is and had the GENIUS idea of making a book of people showing love and saying thank you.
It has brought tears to my eyes and a beaming smile on my face! Feeling incredible proud to be a part of this beautiful beautiful thing.
@amateuradam you legend where you leads I shall follow… especially if it ends in @nhscharitiestogether making the nhs feel celebrated, praised and ALIVE!!
#dearnhs #weloveyou #❤️ #tedreallygotintoit #thentedtriedtoeatit #highpoochpraise
Oh @britishvogue you genius’s you. Thank you for doing a piece on our currently silent west end theatres- I was incredibly honoured to be included in this high talent crew of actors without their stages, and whilst it was heartbreaking being back in my empty theatre at least I got to Dress like Just William and be styled and painted and shot by these incredible humans…
Hair by @EarlSimms2, make-up by @lynseyalexander & nails by @nailedbysg
Photographed by @jackdavisonphoto and styled by @NellKalonji
@playhousetheatrelondon, wearing all @marcjacobs
See the full portfolio in the December 2020 issue of @BritishVogue, on newsstands and available for digital download now.
#missingmystageandmyfearlesscast
#lovingmyschoolboygetup #❤️
I may shit on your bed, but man am I cute.
#somuchlovingmyheartmightburst
#❤️ #😇
#ad #cliniqueambassador Baby it’s bloody freezing outside but with THESE MAGICAL WONDERS my face ain’t nothing but hydrated and calmed to the max! My 72 hour moisture surge auto-replenishing hydrator to keep my skin glowing, the clarifying lotion to keep my skin squeaky clean and then that must have high impact mascara to finish off my holiday look! Ta da!!! Lashes for dayz… @clinique thank you for the festive face pick me up!
#❤️ #🎄 #🥰
Still(Covid) life: Sausage dog reclining.
#themissingpieceofmypuzzle #😇 #❤️
I had the great honour of sitting down with @time to discuss… well.. 2020. I offer some of my opinions on a number of topics, from @sameyouorg and our incredible health services to the sometimes painful idea of hope. spoiler alert: I’m an optimist.
Link in the bio to watch that chat!
#igothope #🚀 #thankyoutimeforyourtime
INSTAWORRRRLD!!!! 🚀🚀🚀🚀
My charity SameYou is starting a new virtual challenge – can you complete it?! I did and it damn near broke my “I’m not that outta shape” ego…;)
The Challenge I hear you ask?!
Well you can Walk, run, cycle or swim the length of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu (that’s 26 miles) by the end of September…. easy right?!
The SameYou team are kicking it off, I’m doing the first leg and I’ve roped in my mum and Ted too… of course I have.
The reason?! Only the best reason in the goddamn world…. We’re fundraising for brain injury recovery, and we’d love you to join in with the challenge. Watch out for postcards, playlists and audio guides from me (she LOVES to read aloud…) along the trail. Link in the bio to find out more! (You know you want to…;)
#sameyouincachallenge #incaredible
#y’allreadyforthis?
#tedsreadyforhismarathon
Fierce. (I mean I was gonna say “dragon ass” but then that’s just a little bloody unhelpful isn’t it..)
So I went with FIERCE!!! ( 🐲) That’s how I describe my journey onscreen for the 6th annual THROUGH HER LENS:
The Tribeca CHANEL Women’s Filmmaker Program. Women’s voices = vital voices!
#womenwholovewomenwhosupportwomen
#wejustlovechanel
#ThroughHerLens #CHANEL #CHANELInCinema
#❤️
🧐Well would you look at this MAGICAL cast of acting LEGENDS…..
In light of more lockdowns we decided it might be fun to do a play reading together, Inspector Hound to be precise.
And so on Sunday 25th at 7pm we shall be reading aloud, for your pleasure, this magnificent piece of work. Tickets are £35 and all proceeds go to the magnificent @royaltheatricalfund which continues to help artists in need in these bloody frightening days.
Please do tune in if you fancy a farce come to life through the power of zoom that I guarentee will have you L-O-L-ing…. 🎯💪🏻🙌
Www.RTFLockdown.com
Link in the bio to buy tickets!
@royaltheatricalfund
#iwillhonestlybetheleasttalentedhumanamongstthesegodsofstageandscreen
#lockdownremedies
#savethearts #❤️ #🙏🏻 #🥳
WE’RE DOING A PLAY!!!!!! 🎉🙌🎉
Myself, my life guru and soul’s guide Emma Thompson, the remarkable Robert Lindsey and the Uber talented Sanjeev Bhaskar.
We will be “reading” (performing) Noel Coward’s incredible and incredibly funny Private Lives…. LIVE!
It takes place at 7pm GMT on Sunday 13th September (otherwise known as this Sunday)
I can’t guarantee there won’t be any technical glitches to add to the humour but I can guarantee that we will be making something of them, and THAT alone will be worth watching…
Tickets are on sale Now! All proceeds are going to the ever needed @royaltheatricalfund #🥳
Link in the bio! Www.rtflockdown.com
So please come do join us having a rollocking good read.
#theatreaintdeadbaby
#🚀 #❤️ #🙌
The ever glorious and wonderful Emma Thompson reads “Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye. Emma would like to dedicate this poem to our future selves, who we will be after this pandemic. What a glorious sentiment that is, filled to the brim with hope. What we need, what we always need, most.
Here is the prescription as written in @thepoetrypharmacy @thepoetryremedy.
Condition: Need for Kindness
There are times in life when everything we thought we could rely on fails, and everything we have wanted for ourselves dissolves in front of us. There are times, also, when we are confronted with the same suffering in others. Faced with the sheer scale of the misery of the world, it can be agonizingly difficult to engage meaningfully- and all too tempting simply to harden our hearts against it.
Yet, as Naomi Shihab Nye tells us in this inspiring poem, those moments- hard as they are- are also an opportunity, if we will only dare to open our hearts. For it is only by reckoning with true sorrow and desolation that we can come to understand exactly how necessary, how life-preserving, kindess really is, and then move towards it. First, however, we must learn true empathy. ‘Kindness’, after all, is just another word for love- and once we’ve acknowledged that the pain of others is exactly as searing as our own, what can we do but love them? What can we do but try to ease their burden? As Nye so wonderfully suggests, nothing else makes sense.
This is a challenge. Even at our lowest points, we must not ignore the suffering of others: we must not allow the solipsism of personal misery to cut us off from the great cloth of human feeling. Yet it is also a consolation: if we reject that isolation, we can take comfort in knowing that whatever loss lays us bare will also bring us into the presence of kindness.
By looking pain in the eye, we can find the kindness needed to reach out not only to others, but to ourselves, as well. It will tie our shoes for us; it will lead us back into the world when everything else has abandoned us. So gaze unflinchingly into the bright light of loss, and let kindness be unleashed from you like a soothing shadow.
Big Thank you Big Em! 🥰🕊🙌
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🤶🎄 well I’m sure you’re all aware that I’m a christmas fan..but these gift sets?! JUST GOT MY FAIRY LIGHTS POPPING OFF… the perfect gift for anyone you love, including and rather importantly this year- YOU! I got very excited when mine arrived, knowing that my zoom festive glow just got an upgrade curtesy of @clinique and their highly addictive moisture surge 72 hour auto-replenishing hydrator (try that one 5 times fast) a must have for these brisk winter wanders with our bubbles, HAPPY GLOWING HOLIDAYS EVERYONE! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄👵
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#clinique #ad #lettherebepampering #❤️ #🙌
The masterful, Uber talented @davidoyelowo reads ‘Praying’ by Mary oliver.
He is dedicating this beauty of a poem to @childrenshungerfund a wonderful charity that has dedicated itself to feeding and aiding those children and families experiencing poverty around the world. 🙌🕊
Here’s the prescription as it reads in @thepoetrypharmacy @thepoetryremedy.
Condition: Need for Mindfulness.
Prayer, to many in our secular age, has become a dirty word. The concept is dismissed as fusty or naïve; the practice even more so. And yet, as the popularity of meditation and mindfulness soars, there seems to be a collective longing for a moment of quiet in our busy lives. A moment in which another voice- an internal whisper, all too easily drowned out behind the sirens and chatter of modern life- may speak.
Mark Oakley, a former canon at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, wrote a wonderful book about how- to him- liturgy was poetry. Across religions, he says, the devotional words which we chant, memorise or sing are a king of poetry that links us to the divine. In the case of many religions, those words can be in a language that the worshippers themselves don’t even understand, and yet somehow their cadence is enough to transport us.
It’s not only the religious who can gain from prayer, just as it’s not only the religious who can appreciate a spectacular cathedral, mosque or temple. Prayer is a constant that run through all human civilisations, and it’s there for a reason. In this poem, Mary Oliver reminds us that we are all in need of a doorway into thanks, and a way of relating to the world without our egos. Having found that, we can allow ourselves- even if only for a moment- to feel a quiet gratitude for all the small moments of grace that we encounter daily. We can thank the world around us for containing blue irises, and weeds, and small stones.
Stop in the street, in the garden, on the train. Pay attention. Put together a few simple words that feel right. If you’re very quiet, and very lucky, you might just hear a voice whispering back to you.
Thank you so much David for your beautiful reading!! 🙏🏻❤️👏❤️
