Rhys Ifans and Anna Friel at the Ivy restaurant (Pic: Rex)
Anna Friel has told how Notting Hill actor Rhys Ifans has brought the Friel-good factor back into her life after her split from long-term partner David Thewlis.
Anna, 35, admits she's smitten with Welsh star Rhys after they met on the set of their new TV movie Neverland earlier this year.
She's even introduced him to six-yearold Gracie, her daughter with Thewlis. "Rhys is brilliant with Gracie," she says.
"We introduced her to the idea really gently and softly.
"The good thing is she saw him on the set of Neverland and she said, 'You are very nice friends... I think he's very nice'."
And Anna also reveals how she and Rhys, 44, unwind by getting all steamy together... in the kitchen.
"We cook together," she says.
"We often have midnight cook-offs if we've been out and we're both hungry. It's like Ready Steady Cook. We hardly watch TV but if we do it's loads of cookery and travel programmes."
Anna, whose lesbian kiss on Brookside was one of the soap's most talked-about moments, says she believes her romance with Rhys will go the distance.
"I think one of the things that draws us together so much is our need to feel safe," she says.
"You know, everyone has to go out there and face the massive world and face rejection, and it's nice to have a sanctuary and a place to go and a pair of big arms around you and someone to say, 'Oh, you're all right'."
Anna started dating Rhys, who was previously engaged to Sienna Miller, after splitting from Thewlis, 48, last December.
The pair, who were together for over 10 years, never married, but she has told how she has no regrets over the relationship.
"I can't really go back and say 'What if?' I was 23 when I got together with David and had a very different way of looking at life.
"I thought the relationship would last forever, but as you get older you realise that certain relationships are meant for certain times."
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