Stonehouse’s Matthew Macfadyen & Kevin R. McNally on the Challenges of Playing Real People

Truth really is stranger than fiction — just ask Matthew Macfadyen and Kevin R. McNally, stars of the new Britbox limited series, Stonehouse, based on the wild true story of an MP’s attempts at evading the law. Hailing from A Very British Scandal writer John Preston, the series is a dramatized take on what happens when one man in power attempts to disappear…but isn’t much good at it at all. Macfadyen stars as John Stonehouse, a member of Parliament who finds himself in the middle of heaping financial trouble after agreeing to spy for the Czech Secret Service, and solves the problem by, what else, faking his death and starting a new life in Australia, away from British politics, as well as his wife (Keeley Hawes) and children. McNally co-stars as Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who leads Parliament by a majority of just one — that one being Stonehouse — and who is desperately trying to keep the situation under control, lest the fabric of his political career come apart at the seams. During this int