Keira met her husband at a mutual friend’s dinner party in 2011, and they married two years later in Mazan, Provence, where she owns a farmhouse (and accompanying vineyards and olive groves). She wore a strapless Chanel couture dress (which she had worn twice before to red-carpet events). James is the cook, a ‘very, very good one’, according to Keira, who is happy to taste-test his Ottolenghi-inspired creations, and she’s, well, she’s the carnage. ‘I’m looking around the room I’m in,’ she laughs, ‘and it’s a complete tip. I think I probably made it into a tip, so can I take credit for that?’

Childcare is a 50/50 split, which is how it has been ever since Edie was born, six years ago. When she’s immersed in a role, James, 38, takes on full-time parent duty, just as Keira will when his new album is released next year. Usually it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and that’s when the cavalry is called in. Either her mother, the playwright Sharman Macdonald, will come up from Teddington, where she lives with Keira’s father, actor Will Knightley (and where Keira and her older brother, Caleb, a composer, grew up). Or, if things are really frantic, they’ll hire a nanny – a luxury she very early on found might be a necessity, thanks to an ill-advised lead role in Thérèse Raquin on Broadway in 2015.

‘I remember being pregnant with Edie and people going, are you sure taking on this play is a good idea?’ she recalls. ‘But I had absolutely no idea what was coming. You go, they’re small, they’re portable, it’ll be fine! I ended up, when she was four months old, starting rehearsals for my first lead on stage in New York, playing a psychotic murderer who kills herself on stage eight times a week. It was a very difficult experience, and I wouldn’t really recommend it.’ She hired a maternity nurse to help with the baby at night so she could get some sleep to keep her own sanity in check.