Alice Eve at her home in Los Angeles in August 2018.
Photo: David CortesAlice Eve, 38, is an English actress whose films include “Bombshell” and “Star Trek Into Darkness.” She co-stars in “Belgravia,” a TV historical drama series on Epix that premieres April 12. She spoke with Marc Myers.
My very first performance ran rather long. Dressed in a tutu, I thoroughly bored my entire family on Christmas Day when I was 4 as I twirled and twirled, with an occasional side step when I became dizzy. My dad recalls it went on for 45 minutes.
Apparently, whenever someone stood up to leave, I demanded that they sit down and watch until the end. That was the moment when performing first became rewarding for me.
Alice Eve with her parents, actors Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan-Eve, and brother, Jack, in their rental home in Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles, where Mr. Eve was filming a TV show in 1985.
Photo: © 1985 Peter KredenserI loved the adoration. I also found a way to express myself without having to verbalize. That day, I was expressing a love for my family without saying a word.
We lived in a three-level, four-bedroom semidetached house in the Holland Park section of central London. It was a standard middle-class house if not a privileged one.
We had beautiful wooden floors that my father guarded diligently. He never allowed women to wear stilettos on them, which led to a great deal of protest from female guests. He worried about their heels denting the finish.
My parents are both professional actors. For a period when I was growing up, they discouraged me. “Acting is a terrible life, don’t do it,” they warned. And yet, I saw the joy they derived from it. They loved watching plays and talking about them and their own performances.
Growing up in a household where both parents were actors was by no means a utopia. As with most artists, my parents were emotional and had sizable egos. But they were brilliant and loving.
My father, Trevor, has been a great champion of mine. He had a natural empathy for emotion. So if I expressed something with feeling, he couldn’t help but respond and engage.
This worked out well, because I never felt emotionally isolated. I also realized early on that the best way to reach my father was to communicate this way.
My mother, Sharon, was always there while my father was often away. Her greatest quality was consistency, and she didn’t give me a sense of abandonment.
Alice Eve with her mother, Sharon Maughan-Eve, in Antigua in 1984.
Photo: Trevor EveBy then, we were living in Los Angeles as my father pursued acting opportunities. I attended the Wildwood School in Santa Monica. On my first day of school when I was 9, I showed up in a matching Mickey Mouse track suit. I thought I looked cool, but it was very 6 years old.
I adapted immediately by taking on an American accent until I fit in. I didn’t want to be the English girl at that moment. I thought the American girls were cool.
We moved back to London when I was 12. There, I attended the Bedales School, which was very free. It was coeducational, and you called the teachers by their first name.
At school, there was a teacher who put on plays, and I took these performances very seriously. We did “Les Misérables” and “Twelfth Night.” They were my first formal exposure to the stage.
What I loved most about acting is that you dropped your worries and became consumed by those of the characters you played.
I wound up attending Oxford University and majored in English literature but continued to act.
Jay Baruchel and Alice Eve in 'She's Out of My League,' 2010.
Photo: Darren Michaels/DreamWorks/Everett CollectionThe turning point for me was landing my first major film role in “She’s Out of My League,” a 2010 romantic comedy. I realized then that I was in the business and that film would be my life.
Today, I live in London on a street that runs parallel to the one I grew up on. At the moment, I’m renovating my place, so I’m living with my brother George in a rental.
My designer is re-doing the interior—or was, until work was postponed due to the virus crisis. We’re going for a Parisian, La Belle Époque feel. That’s my dream life.
What I love most about my house is the clip-clop of women’s shoes on the stone sidewalk as they head home from the Tube station. The sound of heels nearing my place and then disappearing in the night is soothing and reminds me of when I was little. It lulls me to sleep.
Alice on ‘Belgravia’
Alice Eve as Susan Trenchard in 'Belgravia; ' a TV series on Epix.
Photo: Carnival FilmsWhat’s the series about? Lost love, secrets and class conflict. It’s based on the Julian Fellowes novel.
Where does it take place? In England, from 1815 to 1840.
Twist on your role? I made Susan Trenchard fearless.
Most fun? The lack of freedom back then. Restriction can be liberating.
Hardest part? The deep repression women faced then and inhabiting that space in my head.
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