Claire Foy Finds Loving People 'Heartbreaking': 'It’s Just All So Painful'
Claire Foy has opened up about her feelings towards love, revealing that she can find it 'heartbreaking'.
The former The Crown star, who stars as the Duchess of Argyll in an upcoming BBC series A Very British Scandal, recently told The Times: 'I just find the whole loving-people thing heartbreaking — I don’t really get what the point in human beings is because it’s just all so painful. It hurts so much. The world hurts. It’s beautiful and awful.
Foy was previously married to fellow actor Stephen Campbell Moore, with whom she shares her six-year-old daughter, Ivy Rose.
The 37-year-old, who divorced Moore in 2018, continued: 'If I watch anything where people love each other, I can’t take it.'
It makes sense then that the mother-of-one, who unlike some actors says she's okay watching herself back on screen, was intrigued by her latest on-screen role given the heartbreak her character endures. In the series the Duchess and the Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany), who are known to both cheat and hurt each other, end up in a bitter divorce.
Discussing the plot of her upcoming series A British Scandal, which is out on the BBC on Boxing Day, in more depth Foy said: 'It boils down to a relationship and how much they hurt each other. That feeling of unpicking it, to go back to the beginning.
'How can it be that these two loved each other? It’s the same when anything ends.
'They are two completely different people to how they were at the beginning, and that’s the big lie of life — they don’t know who the other person is any more,' she added.
In recent years the Emmy-winning actor, who is famous for playing Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix's royal drama The Crown, remains close with her ex husband. In a joint statement confirming their separation, the couple stated: 'We do however continue as great friends with the utmost respect for one another.'
Foy, who previously took an acting break to focus on motherhood, previously opened up about her acting schedule being detrimental to her parenting,
'The guilt of it. The burden of it. It all seems too much,' she previously told Harper's Bazaar when talking about juggling her hectic work schedule with being a mother.
In 2018, the actor - who has previously revealed she had a breakdown aged 23 - said it was after having her daughter that she realised she needed to make changes.
'Having her made me think, "You need to sort your life out." I just didn’t have to live like that. It was unbearable,' she told Porter magazine.
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