Oh What a Lovely War! ; Believe It or Not, Foyle's War has Been Going On Longer Than the Real Thing. As It Draws to a Close, Its Quirky Female Star has Only One Regret -- She Couldn't Get Her Wartime Kit Off

Daily Mail › April 11, 2008

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ALMOST a year has passed since Honeysuckle Weeks filmed her last scenes as Samantha Stewart in ITV1's concluding two episodes of Foyle's War.

But she still misses the role that made her a household name. 'In the end, I think we went on a little longer than the war itself,' she says, 'but I never wanted it to finish.' More recently, she's been touring the UK in a stage production of Henry James's Turn Of The Screw. It has been a less-than-happy experience. 'Let's just say I've been to Hull and back,' says Honeysuckle, rather pleased with her own joke. In Barnstaple, the dry-ice machine malfunctioned. 'The result was that not only were the audience unable to see my entire performance, they couldn't hear me either as most of them were choking to death.'

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Oh What a Lovely War! ; Believe It or Not, Foyle's War has Been Going On Longer Than the Real Thing. As It Draws to a Close, Its Quirky Female Star has Only One Regret -- She Couldn't Get Her Wartime Kit Off

At 28, Honeysuckle is well on her way to becoming a full-blown eccentric.

With a cut-glass accent that makes even the Queen sound a bit common, her conversation is peppered with the sort of salty phrases that might bring a blush to the cheek of the most hardened HGV driver. She has a habit of tilting her head back and looking at you down the length of her nose. And then there's that name.

Honeysuckle was apparently growing around the door when her mother, Susan, gave birth. 'I had my leg pulled at school [Roedean, as it happens] because of my first name, but there are worse things to be teased ab...

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