Jessie Buckley was ‘scared of love’ before she met her husband

"I think love is terrifying."

The Hamnet actress is married to Freddie Sorensen, whom she began dating in March 2021.

The happy couple have since also welcomed their first child together.

In an interview with Deadline, the Irish actress admitted that she still finds the idea of love "terrifying".

“I think love is terrifying. I have been scared of love for a lot of my life, and it took me a long while to discover what that word even meant for me, not just the idea of it,” Jessie explained.

“I think sometimes love at first sight, it’s too much of a projected idea for it to … I think it takes … You can’t just make a meal. You have to cook it,” she continued.

Jessie was then asked whether or not she actually believes in love at first sight.

“Yeah, I do. I think it’s not what I ever expected it to be. The real stuff is not ever what I expect it to be,” she detailed.

“So even that magnetism might transcend or transform into a very different, layered, complex, full thing. And I guess that depends on where you are in your life and how open you are to that,” Jessie added.

Jessie and Freddie tied the knot back in 2023, during a stunning outdoor ceremony at their home in Norfolk.

Speaking to British Vogue, Jessie confessed that it only took seven weeks to plan their wedding.

“We thought: ‘Let’s just crack on',” she teased.

Their ceremony was very low-key, attended by just 40 guests, and featured cheese toasties from Towpath Café, mini Guinnesses, and an emotional sing-along around a fire pit at 2 a.m.

Then, in December of last year, Buckley revealed she had welcomed a daughter with her husband.

Speaking on The New York Times’ Modern Love podcast, she admitted that she found out she was pregnant shortly after she finished filming Hamnet.

“I’m not surprised I got pregnant a week after I finished filming because I had coaxed… it was also quite intense to have that need while I was in this place of absolute mother and it not be a real thing yet,” she shared.

Reflecting on her daughter, Jessie revealed: “I just hope that if I can pass anything onto her in the way that my mother has passed on to me, is that all the parts of you are not too much. The world needs all of you, and that means incubating the struggles, is like living through the struggles, the shadows.”