Lesley Manville appeared to make a subtle dig at her ex-husband, Gary Oldman, during a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The Crown star was on the US chat show to promote her latest stage role in Oedipus, a Greek tragedy she is currently performing on Broadway.
During the interview, Colbert showed the 69-year-old actress a photograph of her teenage self from her time on Emmerdale in 1975 and asked what advice she would give her younger self. Manville quipped: “Don’t marry an actor!” The comment prompted laughter from both Colbert and the studio audience.
Manville has been married to two actors: Oldman, 67, and Joe Dixon, 60. She married Oldman in 1987 after a three-year relationship, and they had a son, Alfie, in 1988. However, Oldman left her three months after Alfie's birth to pursue a relationship with Uma Thurman, who was 18 at the time. Manville has previously spoken about how devastated she was, describing it as a “tremendously lonely time.”
Oldman went on to marry Thurman briefly from 1990 to 1992, with Thurman later saying he was “impossible to live with.” Manville's second marriage, to Dixon, ended in divorce in 2004.
