Cold Comfort Farm Have Always Been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm", set several years later and based on "Conference at Cold Comfort Farm", when Flora is married with several children, was broadcast. In 1995 a television film was produced which was generally well-received, with critics. Janet Maslin in the "New York Times" wrote that this screen version "gets it exactly right". The film starred Kate Beckinsale as Flora, Joanna Lumley as her friend and mentor Mary Smiling, Rufus Sewell as Seth, Ian McKellen as Amos Starkadder, Eileen Atkins as Judith, Stephen Fry as Mybug, Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Beetle, and Angela Thorne as
Kate Beckinsale Beckinsale and Wiseman deny getting together while "Underworld" was shooting. They married on 9 May 2004 in Bel-Air, California. Beckinsale and Wiseman announced their separation in November 2015, and Wiseman filed for divorce in 2016. Beckinsale is a smoker. When she was nine, her mother moved in with Roy Battersby, and his sons introduced her to cigarettes. She does not drink alcohol. She frequently reveals very personal details of her life in interviews. "...I've never been drunk even. I've never taken drugs. I've never had a one-night-stand..."<br> In 2007, she appeared alongside David Schwimmer in the sixth of the Writers