Gina McKee: ‘I’ve only seen Notting Hill once – and that was at the premiere’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Her voice, with the faintest glimmer of a Geordie accent, drifts down the line like a sprinkle of Rescue Remedy as she tells me how she’s spent the last few months “ensconced” in her East Sussex home, hiking on the Seven Sisters and watching British indie films. She’s hardly been out of our sight since then, with almost 100 film and TV credits to her name, including Atonement, Phantom Thread, Croupier, The Forsyte Saga, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Catherine the Great and, of course, Notting Hill, in which she played Bella, the wheelchair-bound ex-girlfriend of Hugh Grant’s hapless bookseller. This Christmas, she’s starring in the new BBC adaptation of Rumer Godden’s 1939 bestseller Black Narcissus. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Watch Apple TV+ free for 7 days New subscribers only.