'My love life is great... but I don't want kids yet!': Tamsin Egerton reveals she's happy with boyfriend Josh Hartnett but not ready for a family

'Not yet... I'm 25! I want to stay travelling and working as much as possible,' the actress, from Portsmouth, explains.

The couple first met when they starred opposite each other in 2012's Singularity, though their romance didn't begin until a year later.

Certainly once they began dating, Josh and Tamsin didn't want to be far from each other and he even joined her in Dublin where she was filming her new movie.

'We were filming in Dublin and Dún Laoghaire so we would all go to dinners together and we all stayed in the same hotel so that was always quite fun,' Egerton describes the bonding that went on between her castmates Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Suki Waterhouse, Jamie Winstone and Hartnett when he was in the country.

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Loved up: The couple have been dating for nearly two years and recently returned from a holiday in Italy

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Film brought them together: Tamsin met Josh while filming the 2012 film Singularity

'We'd go for walks round Dublin, go to pubs have a little drink together, there was one night at Lillie's Bordello which is a club in Dublin that is quite infamous.

'It was young people together just having a laugh and getting on.'

With a lot of young actors together one can imaging some of the practical jokes that happened on set, but though Egerton had none played on her 'luckily', she did end up being centre of one funny incident.

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Sticking together: Josh joined his British girlfriend in Dublin where she was filming Love, Rosie

'There was a scene that didn't [make it] in the film, where I'm bathing my character's baby and during a take it started peeing all over me. I was just there acting with warm baby pee all over me which was just really really fun', Tamsin ironically explains.

While that production seemed to be filled with laughs her other 2014 film, Queen & Country - which will screen at this year's BFI London Film Festival - certainly felt more draining for the actress.

The film is set ten years after John Boorman's Oscar-nominated London Blitz film Hope & Glory, and returns to find it's young protagonist Bill Rohan (Callum Turner) now an 18-year -old enlisted to serve in the British army during the Korean War.

Instead of heading off to fight, Bill and his fellow conscript and pal Percy (Caleb Landry Jones) are made Sergeant Instructors training the next band of young troops ready to be shipped.

It's during his time serving at a the English army base that he meets Tamsin's character, a beautiful yet despairing young woman studying at Oxford University, who is given the name 'Ophelia' by her would-be paramour.

'It was draining, she was hard to do, and she was incredibly depressed,' Egerton describes the experience of playing that part.

We were filming in Romania and the other guys would all go out for drinks and I would come for one whiskey and then just go. I was very aloof, but Callum Turner who plays the lead he was amazing and we became really close. We all encompassed our characters throughout even when we weren't filming... I was suddenly very aloof, subdued and very emotional. 

'John wanted me to be very, almost like a heroine, a character who was otherworldly so every time I had a speech he didn't want me to be naturalistic, he wanted it to be melodramatic, and laborious and almost over the top which I found very hard as it meant I had to go emotionally over there too, and so it was very a tough shoot but one i'm very proud of.'

Working with the 81-year old director left a mark on the actress, who felt herself changed after the shoot, as she has done with other well-known filmmakers.

 

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