#poor baby its the trauma she gets from her parents marriage

When I remarked to Sinéad Cusack that it was going to be quite a week in her household, since not only is she opening as the lead of a Royal Shakespeare Company production but her husband Jeremy Irons will be seen starring in both “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and “Brideshead Revisited”, it produced a rather unexpected reaction. Far from glowing or crowing over their joint good fortune, Miss Cusack pulled her knees up tightly under her chin and recoiled visibly while emitting a loud groan. “Oh God,” she said, burying her face in the mass of blonde hair, “don’t talk about that. What Jeremy and I have always tried desperately to avoid is to be placed together under the label of ‘The Lunts of Covent Garden.’ Our careers are quite separate and we have a pact only to mention each other veryglancingly.”

—Sunday Telegraph, 1981