Actor James Norton blacked out while filming Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Actor James Norton revealed his role as Sir Clifford Chatterley in the new BBC reincarnation of DH Lawrence's controversial novel was so physically taxing that he blacked out.

In Lady Chatterley's Lover, Norton's character infamously spends the majority confined to a wheelchair, half-paralysed because of an injury sustained in the trenches of the First World War.

The Happy Valley and Grantchester star found himself challenged when he filmed a scene of his character undergoing a treatment involving electric shocks.

"It was quite tough, both physically and emotionally," the actor said at the show's launch in London.

"The physical thing was quite terrifying - I actually had a weird moment. I kind of blacked out at one point and I didn't know where I was. I've never experienced it before."

Norton joked he could appreciate the practical side of an on-screen blackout, saying: "There was one moment when I kind of had to take a bit of a breath. I hope that was used in the edit."

The London-born actor admitted sitting in the wheelchair proved to be another challenge.

"It is a very bizarre thing when you're short of time and can't stand up and walk to the loo," he said, adding: "It was a very eye-opening experience for me personally to sit in that wheelchair hours on end."


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