With two leading roles in one drama, Matthew Rhys’ latest TV project was a major challenge. During a whistlestop return to Wales, the Hollywood star catches up with Karen Price and talks about martial arts, stage fright and two new four-legged additions to the family

Matthew Rhys is calling me from an office on the 20th floor of ITV’s headquarters in London.

He’s just appeared on the early morning Lorraine show and now he’s doing some interviews to promote his forthcoming TV drama.

A few hours later, he’s heading back to his native Wales to catch up with family and friends for 24 hours before flying across the Atlantic to start filming a new series for an American cable channel.

For the last six years, Cardiff-born Rhys has been dividing his time between his Los Angeles base and the UK.

But he seems to be juggling these two very different lifestyles – the glitz and glamour of being a Hollywood star and down-to-earth home-loving Welshman – with ease.

It seems rather apt then that in new ITV drama, The Scapegoat – an adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel, which is screened tomorrow – Rhys plays the parts of two men from contrasting backgrounds.

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