‘I dream my father can walk again’: Lucy Hawking reveals her most touching scenes in Theory Of Everything... but admits Stephen and her family are 'ordinary'

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Lucy Hawking has spoken about her life with her famous scientist father and revealed that she has dreams about seeing him able to move without help of a wheelchair. 

Appearing on ITV's Lorraine, Lucy described watching her own family's complicated private life in last year's Oscar-winning hit The Theory of Everything as 'surreal' and confessed she was touched by a scene showing her father imagining himself free from disability.

'That was my favourite scene,' she said. 'It shocked me because it's like a dream I have that I see him walking again.'

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Appearing on ITV's Lorraine, Stephen Hawking's second child Lucy revealed that she dreams of seeing her scientist father walk again

Lucy Hawking with her father at the premiere of The Theory of Everything last year, the film about his romance with her mother Jane

The 45-year-old, who is the scientist's second child with his first wife Jane Hawking, also admitted that despite being able to fathom the secrets of the universe, her physicist father still finds it hard to fathom the enormity of his own fame.

'I went out with him in Cambridge recently and there's a frisson of excitement around him. 

'I could hear people saying "There's Stephen Hawking",' she told Lorraine Kelly, which she admitted she still finds 'bizarre'.

'I don't even know if dad's resolved this,' she said. 'I don't think even he's come to terms with the extent of his own fame.

'He's quite a modest, humble person so he could never think of himself in the terms that other people do.' 

Ms Hawking, who has recently collaborated with her father on a children's book, George And The Unbreakable Code, the fourth in a series of scientific novels, also described the contrast between her family's public and private life. 

'There is a very marked divide between private and public. Our private life is really quite ordinary - and really quite dull.

'I think people would be quite surprised...They was us to be talking about a great philosophical debate.'

Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Stephen and Jane Hawking in 2014's The Theory Of Everything

Actor Eddie Redmayne pictured accepting his Best Actor Oscar for The Theory Of Everything in February

But, she admitted, they are more likely to be talking about whether to cook a goose or a turkey for Christmas or what colour to paint the kitchen.

The author also spoke about her latest collaboration with her father describing the books as 'adventurous stories that explain science through dramatic story-telling'.

'The stories are about two kids, George and Annie, who have a super computer that allows them to slip out into the universe,' she said.

'I tell the story and my father adds the science. But I work with a range of scientists now.'

She said she hoped the books bust the myths that scientists all wear white lab coats and work alone in a laboratory.

Lucy collaborated with her father on children's book, George And The Unbreakable Code, the fourth in a series of scientific novels

Lucy Hawking giving a talk in Australia with a 3D projection of her father as because of restrictions of travel due to his condition, the scientist appeared on stage as a hologram

'We're trying to show the wonder of science and show it is collaborative,' she said.

'Dad and I get together and he suggests what we write about scientifically and I think how we would express that in terms of the story.'

Talking about her own family's story on the big screen, Ms Hawking said: 'It's a really beautiful film and I loved watching it. It was very strange because I got sucked in.

'I was thinking, "I hope they got together". You get drawn into the narrative and then realise, "I'm actually part of it". It was a very surreal experience.'

Full of praise for Eddie Redmayne, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of her father, she said: 'To portray the onset of motor neurone disease and the personality of my father at the same time - that's two enormous things to capture.

'I thought he captured him brilliantly.'