![]() ![]() Her husband, well known for his head of tumbling curls, recently handed Leslie the hair clippers and asked her to give him a trim. In their copious downtime this year, Leslie learned a thing or two about the perils of multitasking. The two fell in love on-screen and then off they married in June 2018, after six years together, and divide their time between London and a country house in East Anglia, England. And, of course, there is her wildling character on “GoT,” the show where she met Harington, who played the heroic, slightly oblivious Jon Snow. She played the maid Gwen Dawson on “Downton Abbey,” who risked the ire of her fellow servants to train to become a secretary, and more recently appeared on “The Good Fight” as young lawyer Maia Rindell, daughter of a disgraced Bernie Madoff-type figure. “Very willing and determined” is a good nutshell for Leslie’s defining roles thus far. ![]() “She’s finding her feet,” Leslie says, “but she’s gung-ho and very willing and determined, which is a fun character to play.” Sweater, $896 at Christopher Kane Rachell Smith In “Vigil,” which involves the disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on a submarine, Leslie plays a detective on her first murder investigation. “I’m a very tactile person with my friends, but the elbow bump is going to have to be enough for now.” “Stepping into the hair-and-makeup trailer, and seeing those wonderful ladies in visors and masks and aprons, these dear friends - it felt strange not to go in for a hug,” she says. Even though it means COVID-19 testing every three days and a marked lack of hugs, she’s grateful to be back. “I am thrilled to be expecting, and I can’t wait to meet the new member of our family!” she tells us.īut first, she’s enjoying a return to quasi-normalcy, shooting the six-part crime thriller “Vigil,” which paused production in March and resumed in September. Her tailoring may have to be altered in the coming months, as Leslie, 33, recently went public with the news that she and her husband, Kit Harington, are having a baby. “I like to give it an edge, with either a chunky boot or some earrings, but otherwise, it’s relatively minimalist.” Dress, $8,990, and boots, $1,690, all at Alexander McQueen, 747 Madison Ave. “Not many patterns, kind of a tailored cut, flattering for the figure,” she says. In her personal style, she keeps it simple. Leslie, best known for her fur-clad “Game of Thrones” character Ygritte, looks right at home in the warm, sumptuous knits of her Alexa shoot. “I’m excited to tackle the wardrobe again.” “After these seven months, the idea of putting on makeup felt very strange,” says the actress, on Zoom from her home in London. She’s due back on a BBC set in Glasgow shortly after our interview, and can’t wait to be working again. “I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m wearing foundation!’ ” Her husband’s noticed it: “He said, ‘Something’s different,’ ” the Scottish actress says.
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