James Norton's dark periods on Lady Chatterley's Lover.

James Norton has 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, James’ character infamously spends the majority of his time 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.


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