Death in Paradise star admits she's visited by ghosts but 'doesn't flinch'

25 June 2024 , 16:30

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Anna Chancellor has revealed that her house is haunted by ghosts (Image: BBC/Red Planet Pictures/Denis Guyenon)

Death In Paradise star Anna Chancellor has admitted that her house is haunted by ghosts.

Anna, 59, is set to star in the comedy-drama My Lady Jane on Amazon Prime, which tells the story of Lady Jane Grey, who was England's shortest-serving monarch of only nine days - before being beheaded. The actress, who has had a glittering career in both TV and film, starred in the 2019 episode of Death In Paradise. Speaking about her home, which she believes she shares with ghosts, she said in a recent interview: "If I hear crash, bang, wallop in my house, I don't even flinch. I think, 'That's probably a ghost.' I've gotten over being scared of ghosts."

Her admission came after she recalled the moment she went ghost hunting with her My Lady Jane co-star Dominic Cooper. She told OK!: "Dominic was like, 'We're gonna go look for ghosts,' and I thought that was fun because it was windy. We were going up a hill and looking around, it was windy. And then suddenly Dominic went, 'What is that? Is that a ghost?' And I said, 'I really don't care,' because I feel like I've been in many haunted houses." According to the star of the iconic film Four Weddings And A Funeral, which also featured Hugh Grant, said Dominic was far from brave as he went "running back."

Anna Chancellor has revealed that her house is haunted by ghosts (Jonathan Prime/Prime Video)

She continued: "He went running back. He was always running back to catering in the middle of the night." Anna plays the mother of the young monarch who reigned from the 10th to the 19th July 1553. She was accused of treason and was subsequently beheaded. In the period comedy drama, Anna who plays the role of Lady Frances Grey revealed that she had to work with an intimacy coordinator for a sex scene with her co-star Henry Ashton, at one point while filming the romantic comedy-drama.

She added: "It was quite funny. The intimacy coordinator had me and [actor Henry Ashton] and to begin with, she was like, 'Just face each other and touch each other's faces and touch each other's bodies. That's intimate, to look at someone and just touch their hair and their face."

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For Anna, she did not hesitate to take on the role as she was gripped from the moment she read the script. She claimed that actors can tell "immediately" if the show or film is going to suit them or not. She explained: "And you can tell from this that the arrow is straight, which makes our jobs obviously so much easier. Because you just do what they've written, isn't it? Because they’re so funny. The core is a romantic comedy and romantic comedies are famously not easy to nail."

Lucretia Munro