Eve Hewson: ‘Whenever I read a script about the most beautiful girl in the room , I want to puke’
The star of Netflix s new thriller Behind Her Eyes talks portraying mental illness and a childhood spent touring with U2
20 February 2021 • 6:00am It feels so exciting to watch things unravelling : Eve Hewson stars in new Netflix psychological thriller Behind Her Eyes
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Eve Hewson really hates “playing characters that are based on looks”. So much so, says the 29-year-old who has appeared in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies and Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick, that “whenever I read a script about ‘the most beautiful girl in the room,’ I actually want to puke”.
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Richard Phibbs
Eve Hewson’s family has a motto: “Work like a dog, live like a shih tzu.” This work hard, play hard philosophy permeates every story the actress tells me, each instance of effort balanced with an enthusiastic enjoyment of life’s pleasures. It’s very Irish – as is she, proudly so, though she has spent much of her life travelling the world. When she was small, the whole family would follow her father, the U2 frontman Bono, on tour. Then, when Hewson applied to the prestigious Tisch School to study acting, she moved to New York, which has been her base ever since.
Eve Hewson: The actress with her parents and sister Jordan Hewson. (Image: Getty)
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Eve Hewson is an Irish actress who is probably best known for starring in BBC s The Luminaries in 2020 as Anna Wetherell.
She has also been in drama The Knick, Bridge of Spies, 2018 s Robin Hood and Blood Ties just to name a few of her roles.
Behind Her Eyes is probably Hewson s biggest role to date though as she stars as one of the main characters in the psychological thriller.
Even before Hewson became an actress though, she was already used to the glamorous lifestyle which fame brings.