Sherlock’s Amanda Abbington admits it was ‘so weird’ filming scenes as new parents with ex Martin Freeman

Amanda Abbington has revealed it was ‘so weird’ filming scenes in Sherlock as new parents with her ex-partner Martin Freeman.

The former couple play John and Mary Watson in the BBC1 detective series, which kicked off its latest series tonight.

In an interview with Daily Telegraph’s Stella magazine, Amanda claimed it was hard reuniting on screen with her ex.

She said: ‘Especially playing new parents again… because we were effectively revisiting how it was when we first got together.’
Abbington also spoke about her split from Freeman and claimed it was ‘entirely amicable’

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She said: ‘It’s all totally fine. Martin and I remain best friends and love each other, and it was entirely amicable, but we realised we’d come to the end of our time together.

‘There was no hostility, really. We just said that we couldn’t live together any more.’
The actress revealed it was long periods spent apart with Freeman away filming The Hobbit franchise and US TV series Fargo abroad that led to the break up.

She added: ‘It is sad and it is upsetting because you think you’re going to be with someone forever, but you either do that or you break up.

‘And we both came to the decision that splitting was best for us. We’ve been really lucky to make it such a clean break, especially for the kids.’