Elizabeth Hurley, Damian Hurley. Kevin Mazur/WireImage for EHDH
Elizabeth Hurley’s son, Damian Hurley, cut his entertainment chops on the established of Gossip Woman — and allegedly even served Blake Energetic bear in mind her traces.
Damian, 22, who created his directorial debut with the thriller Strictly Confidential, starring his mom, 58, claimed hanging out on the set of the CW collection as a child was particularly influential.
“When he arrived onto Gossip Woman, his eyes, they had been just like saucers,” Elizabeth recalled of her son, whom she shares with ex Steve Bing, throughout their joint visual appearance on The View on Thursday, April 4. “And he was just like, ‘This is my entire world.’” (Elizabeth appeared in 14 episodes of the teen drama as Diana Payne, who experienced an affair with Chace Crawford’s character Nate Archibald.)
Damian observed that he was notably drawn to Energetic, now 36, and stayed close to her in scenario she essential support. “I’d understand all her lines and I’d cover on set with her and whisper them if she forgot them,” Damian explained. “It was just, honestly, it was the best environment in the planet for a young inventive to expand up in.”
In addition to Gossip Female, Damian mentioned he was “such a sponge” on each established he visited with his renowned mother, which finally led to his profession in film. Elizabeth beforehand raved about her son’s directing capabilities and stated she felt “safe” while filming sexual intercourse scenes for his movie, Strictly Private, which premieres on April 5.
“It’s relaxing realizing someone’s at the rear of the digital camera who seems out for you, which was the similar on this movie in a way,” Elizabeth informed Access Hollywood in March. “Having him there meant I felt secure and seemed soon after.”
She additional of her only little one, “I knew he would appear after me. So, in fact, it is type of liberating to get the job done with your spouse and children. I may perhaps do it once more.”
Strictly Private had a reduced budget, and Damian talked over the challenges of producing the unbiased film.
“Every single second counts,” he said. “You just can’t sit close to mulling around scenes, thinking, ‘Oh, what if? It’s possible.’ You just have to go for it and do as significantly as you bodily can as rapidly as rapid as you bodily can.”
The mom-son duo shrugged off the potential awkwardness of working alongside one another and have been unbothered when enthusiasts lifted their eyebrows in excess of Damian using Elizabeth’s bikini images.
“Show enterprise has been a basic section of my lifetime my total daily life, so to us, it’s just not a matter,” Damian reported of the “controversial” scenario. “It’s just component of the business. She usually takes my photographs. I take her photographs.”
Elizabeth has always fostered her son’s love of the arts and even gifted him his initial online video digicam when he was 8 years previous.
“He commenced generating child motion pictures,” she recalled throughout a Thursday, April 4, look on Nowadays, incorporating she and her friends have been often asked to star in his childhood movies. “I stated to him if he ever gets the opportunity to make his very first significant, grown-up movie, I’d be in it, and he got this chance, so, of system, I deliver it. I was in it.”
