ACTRESS Lily James was at the centre of her co-star Armie Hammer’s marriage break-up.
Armie, 34, seen performing erotic scenes with Lily, 31, in new film Rebecca, split from wife Elizabeth this year.
The Sun on Sunday can reveal they separated after Elizabeth, 38, grew suspicious of the close bond Lily and her hubby developed.
It comes after Lily was seen in intimate clinches with another married co-star, Dominic West, 51.
Film crew said Brit Lily and US actor Armie “behaved as if they were a couple”, flirting and laughing.
During filming in France and the UK, sources said Armie was also “open about his marriage being on the rocks”.
Lily’s relationship with actor Matt Smith, 37, had also hit the skids after he went to Ibiza in the summer.
A movie insider said: “Lily was left fuming Matt went to Ibiza and didn’t call her.
“She and Armie were obviously close and spent a lot of time together in the evenings and at weekends.”
In the film, released on Netflix last week, Lily stars as Mrs de Winter who falls for dashing Maxim, played by Armie, in an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel.
In a previous interview about filming in the South of France Lily said: “It was totally magical. We met each other, we shot by the beach, we could drink rosé every evening. It was heaven.”
In July Armie and his wife, who have two kids, announced an end to their ten-year marriage.
New papers filed by each party allegedly provide different separation dates, which may affect the alimony Armie has to pay out.
He said last month: “A separation like this is a seriously seismic event in someone’s life. And there’s a lot of shifting and growing pains and changes.
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“Change is a universal constant. I mean, change is not a bad thing always, but that doesn’t mean it’s painless.”
Lily was seen in Rome with West, her co-star in The Pursuit of Love.
It was reported last week that his wife Catherine Fitzgerald, 49, had since flown to Ireland alone.
