Aidan Turner won’t thank me for this, but the answer to the question in your mind is yes, he really is that good looking. A rascally mix of easy laughter, Byronic hair and biceps, the 39-year-old, Dublin-born Poldark star is sprawled in a lordly divan-style chair in his dressing room at the Harold Pinter Theatre during rehearsals for Sam Steiner’s two-hander Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons.
This playful study of government control and non-communication in relationships has been a cult hit since it appeared on the fringe in 2015: now Turner and Jenna Coleman have lent their primetime pulling power to the first West End revival, directed by Josie Rourke. “It opens on a couple who have been together a couple of years when a piece of legislation is brought in that limits how much everyone in the country can say and the limit is 140 words a day,” Turner says.
