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James Norton on the red carpet at the London Palladium for the Prince’s Trust Awards, March 11

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James Norton attends the Prince’s Trust Awards at the London Palladium, March 11, 2020

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James Norton in The Trial of Christine Keeler - TV & Satellite Week, 11 January 2020 (full size 1, 2)

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James Norton with Florence Pugh and Greta Gerwig attending the London photocall for Little Women - 16 December 2019

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The Trial of Christine Keeler was filmed in Bristol, some of whose citizens turned out to have long, unkind and not necessarily accurate memories of an affair that became Britain’s gold standard...

James Norton, the 34-year-old Happy Valley, War & Peace and Grantchester star, says to play Ward he relied heavily on one short piece of news footage in which his character dismissed the allegations against him as absurd. “You can hear the beginning of desperation in his voice and you can sense the pain he’s going through, but there was something pursed about his lips that made him look mischievous, a sort of twinkle in his eyes even when he’s at his most stressed. I would use that image of the smile often before going into scenes,” he says. Norton is also wokefully aware that there is no ignoring the fact that Ward in a sense groomed these young women and, indeed, slept with Rice-Davies when she was 17. “In the #MeToo era there’s the argument, ‘Well, it was a different time, different standards, different expectations.’ But the fact remains Ward used these young women as his ticket to high society. The complicated thing is that at the same time he also was empowering them. You know, often he would pick these women off the street. Take them home. Sometimes sleep with them. I think he also called himself a Pygmalion character: he’d polish them up and introduce them to some very wealthy man and they would be kept. We talked a lot about that, but I was very keen not to forget that, while we acknowledge all that, ultimately, he played the highest price of anyone involved.”

Full interview here: tuttosujamesnorton.blogspot.com

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James Norton and Emma Watson at the Little Women premiere in New York, Dec. 7, 2019

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James Norton with Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen at the Little Women premiere in New York, December 7, 2019

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James Norton, Sophie Cookson, Ellie Bamber, Emilia Fox, Anthony Welsh, writer Amanda Coe, producer Rebecca Ferguson and exec. producer Kate Triggs attend the UK premiere of The Trial Of Christine Keeler at Content London - December 4, 2019 (Zimbio)

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