Olivia Colman has revealed her secret tattoo tribute to her husband Ed Sinclair during a new interview on Tuesday.
The Crown star, 51, who tied the knot with Ed in 2001, showed off the inking down her right arm and hilariously admitted that it looked terrible.
Joining the Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast, she declared: ‘I do have his name,’ and lifted up her sleeve.
Commenting on the handwriting, Olivia added, ‘It’s a bit like he’s p****d on me, but it was my choice.’
The actress only has one other known tattoo, which was given to her by Dakota Johnson – her co-star in The Lost Daughter – after a cast party in New York four years ago.
Olivia has said that the actress inked ‘the initials of my loved ones’ on her left arm using a stick-and-poke tattoo kit.
Olivia Colman has revealed her secret tattoo tribute to her husband Ed Sinclair during a new interview on Tuesday
The Crown star, 51, who tied the knot with Ed in 2001, showed off the inking down her right arm and hilariously admitted that it looked terrible (pictured together in August)
‘Maybe it was me being completely seduced by this gorgeous person and wanting her to think I was cool,’ she later reflected. ‘Or maybe it was my midlife crisis.’
Olivia also revealed the surprising secret behind her long-lasting marriage to screenwriter Ed.
She admitted they don’t argue – and claimed avoiding blazing rows has helped their relationship last as long as it has.
‘It’s our 25th wedding anniversary next year. We’ve been together 31 years,’ Olivia said.
Asked why she thinks they’ve lasted so long, she replied, ‘We’re not big fighters, which apparently isn’t very healthy.
‘We have learned over the years – but really late on actually – to sometimes [think], if that was annoying, just wait.
‘And it doesn’t work for everyone, I know that, but I think it’s much better to wait until the calmer moments to go, “Can we talk about that moment? I did find that a little weird and is that OK that I’m saying this and yes I was a bit cross that day…”’
The actress, who won the Best Actress Oscar in 2018 for her role in The Favourite opposite Emma Stone, added she’s still physically attracted to Ed all these years later.
Joining the Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast, she declared: ‘I do have his name. It’s a bit like he’s p****d on me, but it was my choice’
The actress only has one other known tattoo, which was given to her by Dakota Johnson – her co-star in The Lost Daughter – after a cast party in New York four years ago
Olivia has said that the actress inked ‘the initials of my loved ones’ on her left arm using a stick-and-poke tattoo kit (pictured together in The Lost Daughter)
‘He’s my best friend and I fancy him, which is quite nice,’ she said.
The couple have three children with Ed – Finn, 20, Hall, 18, and a ten-year-old daughter.
Ed was an actor before he became a screenwriter and film producer. He wrote the 2021 Sky drama series Landscapers starring Olivia and David Thewlis, and recently produced The Roses starring Olivia and Benedict Cumberbatch as a husband and wife at war.
They met in the late 1990s while rehearsing for a Cambridge Footlights production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Table Manners. At the time, Olivia was studying teaching at Homerton College, Cambridge.
Recalling the first time she saw him, Olivia added: ‘I’d gone to two of the rehearsals and there was no one particularly fanciable there. Then I walked in and I saw his left-hand profile.
‘At the time he was smoking a ciggie, his feet were crossed, and he’s got this lovely bump in his nose and I saw his side profile and just went, oh my God, I’m going to marry him. ‘I had proper thunderbolts: that’s him, that’s him! Poor thing, he didn’t know.’
In a typically self-deprecating manner, Olivia claimed that while she vividly remembers the first time she met Ed, the feeling wasn’t mutual. ‘He genuinely can’t remember it,’ she said.
The couple married in 2001 after dating for seven years. She has previously said he plays a very supporting role at home.
‘He’s always there when I’m feeling like I did a bad job or something, so we’re there to pick each other up,’ she has said.
Joking about his career switch from actor to screenwriter, she added, ‘We worked out very early on that it’s much better if he’s a writer, I’m an actor and we don’t talk about it. It’s much easier not to talk about the work.’
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