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David Harbour Said That He Knew Lily Allen Was “Really Extraordinary” After He Was “Brutally Honest” About His “Beliefs” On Their Third Date And She Still Accepted Him
“It would take a really extraordinary person to be accepting of the things that I said.”

David Harbour Said That He Knew Lily Allen Was “Really Extraordinary” After He Was “Brutally Honest” About His “Beliefs” On Their Third Date And She Still Accepted Him

In August 2019, celebrity enthusiasts everywhere were left surprised by reports that British pop star Lily Allen was dating US actor David Harbour after they were spotted at the theater together.

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She explained on the Sex, Lies & DM Slides podcast: “We didn’t plan to announce it to anyone, like, it was meant to be a private affair. We were leaving Las Vegas and driving to Los Angeles, and Nevada Clark County tweeted our marriage certificate.”

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And David also confessed that his role as Jim Hopper in Netflix series Stranger Things inadvertently prepared him for becoming a stepfather.

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In the show, Hopper reluctantly becomes a father figure to Eleven, played by Millie Bobby Brown, and David is able to draw stark parallels between his and his character’s lives.

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“I’m very much a New York sort of city rat. I liked my freedom, my independence. And then it was really this part that did change a lot of that perspective,” he said on the That Scene With Dan Patrick podcast.

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“The show sort of opened my heart in a lot of different ways, and one of the ways that it did was it started to make me realize how thin my existence was without a family,” he went on. “I feel like there was something in Hopper that had a deep need for family, and there was something in me that had it, too, but that I wasn’t even aware of.”

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“As I began to explore this role, the role allowed me to do that in my real life,” David concluded.

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However, she added that she wouldn’t start trying for a few years as she explained: “I’m in a really good place. I don’t know if I’d mess with my hormones at this particular point.”

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It was initially reported that the two stars had met backstage on a talk show, but it was later confirmed that they’d actually arranged a date at swanky Mayfair restaurant the Wolseley after matching on Raya, an exclusive celebrity dating app.

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The actor went on to detail the exact moment that he knew that he was in love with Lily, which was as early as their third date.

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“She claims to have fallen in love at first sight with me — I mean, who wouldn’t?” he joked. Referencing his own feelings, David added: “I remember the exact moment. It was our third date.”

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“I was just in this phase, where I was like, I’m just going to be brutally honest about everything, because why lie?” David continued. “And I told her something about my life, about my beliefs…”

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The actor is said to have hesitated before adding to the publication: “It would take a really extraordinary person to be accepting of the things that I said. And I remember thinking: ‘Wow, that’s somebody I want to be around.’”

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David did not pulge any further information about what the beliefs that he told Lily were, nor what they were in relation to. However, he has previously spoken publicly about his political and religious views.

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David has also explored several religions, including Catholicism and Buddhism, but when asked by the Pitch which one he followed and truly believed in he replied: “All of them.”

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In the profile, David admitted that he considered going method when he landed the role of Macbeth, but changed his mind when he realized that his mind was going to a “dangerous” place.

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“I didn’t actually do it, obviously,” David added. “Not only is that stuff silly, it’s dangerous, and it actually doesn’t produce good work.”

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The star added that while he respects the work of method actors such as Daniel Day-Lewis, he finds their process “nonsense.”

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