Talk:Honeysuckle Weeks

Birthplace

I was just wondering is someone could verify her place of birth, as IMDB says she was born in Cardiff.

Thanks

That's why i changed it, but it got reverted back. I can't find any other sources on this. iMDB says Rollo and Perdita were born in Caerdydd too User:Craitman17 14:14, 8 February (UTC)

In a 2002 interview which was part of the Foyle's War press pack of 2002, Honeysuckle states that she was born in Cardiff. "Sam was described to me at the outset as someone who was born in Cardiff and brought up in the South Downs. In real life, I know the South Downs like the back of my hand because I grew up there and I was also born in Cardiff. I felt transported into the character as I read." The interview is available at www.foyleswar.com. I think there is a direct link at the bottom of Honeysuckle's wiki page. Florrie 22:37, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I corrected Honeysuckle's place of birth. As well as the interview in the official press-pack there is also the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages which can confirm the location if anyone cares to double-check. I only recorded the one easy-to-access online source, however, as a reference. Florrie 13:51, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, first, you made your edit with no explanation – not even an edit summary – and secondly, you gave no source. Those sorts of edits tend to be reverted.

When I first created the article, the IMDb entry gave her birthplace as Chichester (supported by other sources, such as this, this, [1], and this). IMDb can, unfortunately, be edited by users, so isn't always a wholly reliable source of information (note, though, that it gives Chichester as the birthplace for Rollo, backed up by this and this). She was an undergraduate at my College, though, so I'll see if the College Office has details (it will count as original research, but at least it will be something extra that I can mention on the Talk page). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:19, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

you don't always need an edit summary, as you can see the changes when comparing articles... but you didn't need to go into so much detail, i believe you. ijust wanted to be sure of all three weeks' birthplaces, as they are noted differently in (eg.) iMDB and Wiki.

thanks User:Craitman17 20:20, 8 Feb 2007 (UTC)

Actually you do always need an edit summary; editors are asked always to give one, and people who try to become admins are badly affected (and sometimes fail) if they don't use them. It's a courtesy to other editors.

I'm still looking for Perdita Weeks' birthplace, but it seems unlikely to me that it's Cardiff, partly because the Cardiff claim at IMDb seems clearly false for the others. (I suspect that the IMDb entry for Honeysuckle Weeks will be changed before long.) --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

As the final word, I have found all three siblings in the Birth register indexes. Honeysuckle and Perdita were born in South Glamorgan, Rollo was born in Chichester. The dates indicate that they moved sometime in 1986, or early 1987. MortimerCat 00:30, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Internal link

A note to say that "television series: Close Relations (1998)" has a link that goes to the wrong thing (it goes to 1933 movie instead of a 1998 TV series). --Cymen (talk) 22:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Questionable claim

The article cites an intreview where she says that at age 11 she was flown to the US for a role in a Dreamworks film, and that for a while she was the flavour of the month at Disney. But then another director took over, and gave the role to Reese Witherspoon instead. I have big problems with this: If she was 11, this means it happened in 1990. However, Dreamworks started in 1994, and although Reese Witherspoon's first film was made in 1990-1991 (The Man in the Moon), this was for MGM and with no known involvement from either Spielberg or Disney. She then did a few TV roles. However, in March 1994 the film A Far Off Place was released - and that one fits much better: produced by Steven Speilberg's other company, Amblin Entertainment for Disney, and directed by Mikael Salomon. So that's probably the film she's referring to, although it's a couple of years off (unless production or release was very delayed). The text in the source article is obviously wrong, so unless someone can find another, more correct source, I think that paragraph should be removed. Thomas Blomberg (talk) 17:04, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Weeks was born in August, so she would have still been 11 in 1991. A Far Off Place was released in March 1993, not 1994. Given that the director and cinematographer and all crew were laid off 3 weeks into the production[2] and then needed to be replaced, a period of 1991 to 1993 for development hell and the actual film production doesn't seem a stretch. The same source states the script was in existance in 1989, which backs this up. Speilberg was also involved in the choosing of the new director, which is perhaps why Weeks misremembered the production company as Dreamworks. ChrisMalme (talk) 07:59, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

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Latest drink driving case

Should her latest drink driving case not be in the article esp as she has a rather extraordinary mitigation to the offence?

"Foyle’s War actress Honeysuckle Weeks has been banned from driving after claiming she was forced to get behind the wheel while drunk to avoid being coerced into a threesome." Rustygecko (talk) 13:26, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Yes, it's been added. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 15:03, 11 January 2023 (UTC)