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English actress Felicity Jones, star of The Theory of Everything and The Brutalist, talks The Standard through London in her eyes. Discover what makes London special to Jones, from her favourite haunts to her top Londoner.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve lived in east, north and west London. The only place for me to live next is south. These days I live west, and it\u2019s been my home for the past 10 years. I enjoy being able to jump on the overground and go to Portobello Market and being close to Heathrow. I do a lot of travel for work and it helps being close, and being able to fly away. And come back.<\/p>\n
Where was your first flat in London?<\/p>\n
When I first moved here I had a flat in Bethnal Green that I shared with two friends, and that was a full-on twentysomething experience. We were next to some great pubs and, being close to Brick Lane and Shoreditch, we would go out there all the time. I remember going to Vyner Street for the gallery openings. It was a really exciting place to be living in your early twenties as I was auditioning for TV shows and absolutely loved living in that part of the city.<\/p>\n
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Felicity Jones (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n
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My very first job in London was when I was 12, in Ruislip. I did a TV period drama called The Treasure Seekers. That was the beginning of my love affair with London; ever since that moment I knew one day I wanted to live in the Big Smoke.<\/p>\n
Which shops do you rely on?<\/p>\n
I do love going to Liberty. It\u2019s always such a treat, and if I ever need a really nice present, that\u2019ll be my one-stop shop. I love the history of it and I love all the wood when you go in. If I\u2019ve got a bit of time and I\u2019m going for a little bit of self-care then I like going to Sarah Chapman just off Sloane Square. I\u2019ll treat myself to a coffee beforehand at Ottolenghi and go and have a very luxurious facial.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the best meal you\u2019ve had?<\/p>\n
I like going into the centre of town and trying different places. The name of the place I went to recently is Toklas<\/a>. I might be late to the party but I went there and it\u2019s brilliant. There\u2019s a bakery and a restaurant and it makes you feel like you\u2019re an architecture student in the 1980s.<\/p>\n What would you do if you were Mayor for the day?<\/p>\n I would plant loads more trees. As many as possible. And I would also close all the roads so that everyone could walk around everywhere.<\/p>\n Who is the most iconic Londoner?<\/p>\n Queen Elizabeth II (PA)<\/p>\n PA Archive<\/p>\n Where do you go and what do you do to have fun?<\/p>\n I haven\u2019t really gone out to bars for a long time, which is probably saying something. My life is much more going to the Natural History Museum<\/a> and being overwhelmed by the massive creature hanging above us in that main hall. I feel like I\u2019ve gone from cocktail bars to dinosaurs. And I love the My London<\/a> feature in the paper. I get it every week and on Friday night, I\u2019ll think, \u201cOh, now\u2019s the time for a little drink and reading the paper.\u201d<\/p>\n What\u2019s the best thing a cabbie has ever said to you?<\/p>\n People don\u2019t always recognise me; sometimes they\u2019ll be like, \u201cDid we go to the same school?\u201d I get that quite a lot. It varies depending on the cabbies. I\u2019ve met a lot of cabbies who are really passionate about film. I\u2019ve had some really good chats about film and books. I\u2019ve had some really fascinating cab journeys actually.<\/p>\n What\u2019s your London secret?<\/p>\n One place I have been to recently is Dukes Bar, which is behind The Wolseley restaurant. It\u2019s a little side door down an alley. You get fantastic cocktails and it\u2019s always packed. <\/p>\n What are you up to at the moment for work?<\/p>\n Felicity Jones, Emma Corrin and Maika Monroe<\/p>\n Getty Images for BFI<\/p>\n I am promoting three films. There\u2019s Train Dreams, which is out in cinemas and on Netflix soon. We have a film called Oh. What. Fun, which is a comedy with Michelle Pfeiffer, then a film called 100 Nights of Hero with Emma Corrin and Maika Monro.<\/p>\n They\u2019re all wonderful films in their own way so I\u2019m happy to be a saleswoman for a few months.<\/p>\n If there\u2019s anything I collect it\u2019s definitely little bits and bobs from nature. There arequite a few pebbles around the house thatare building up. I don\u2019t know if we really need all these random stones and rocks, but there\u2019s something about having a bit of nature in the city that I really like.<\/p>\n Train Dreams is in cinemas now and streaming on Netflix from November 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"English actress Felicity Jones, star of The Theory of Everything and The Brutalist, talks The Standard through London…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,132620,4884,257,47389,97804,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-569234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-felicity-jones","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-my-london","14":"tag-natural-history-museum","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115546573551786309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/354c826abc73c1f5f33a23b676a8b2c2Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NDAwNzY4-2.26132712.jpg\")
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