041402 Sunday Mail

April 14, 2002
Sunday Mail
Dougray's Hair Scare
Exclusive: Star's New Look
by John Millar

SCOTS movie hunk Dougray Scott told last week how his swashbuckling, long -haired look for his latest movie terrified his kids.

He stars in Cromwell and Fairfax, which is set during the 17th-century civil war between the Roundheads and Cavaliers. With a flowing hairstyle, moustache and goatee beard, the award-winning Scots actor plays Sir Thomas Fairfax, the aristocrat in charge of Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentary army.

But the Fife-born star's new look wasn't too popular at home with his three -year-old twins Eden and Gabriel.

"The kids didn't like this look one little bit," said Dougray during a break in filming at Hampton Court in London.

"Eden could plait the long hair, but Gabriel asked me, 'Where's your real hair?'"

The pounds 13million film, which tells of betrayal and intrigue between Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax, has a star-studded cast.

Tim Roth plays Cromwell, Rupert Everett, of My Best Friend's Wedding fame, is the ill-fated King Charles I and Olivia Williams, star of The Sixth Sense, plays Lady Anne Fairfax.

The historical drama meant a drastic change of image for Dougray, who had a short back and sides in the Second World War drama Enigma. The hair extensions that created his shoulder length hair-do took about five and a half hours to put in.

His costume for Cromwell and Fairfax includes a wide-brimmed hat with a huge black plume, a handmade suit and thigh-high boots.

Dougray said: "As soon as you put on the outfit, it feels like stepping back in time."

The film marks Dougray's first role as associate producer.