James Norton reveals ‘painful’ injury on set of epic new BBC drama
Things got very physical on set.
James Norton has revealed the ‘painful’ injury he suffered, which threatened to halt filming for King and Conqueror.
The new BBC drama, set to premiere tonight, tells the story of King Harold (Norton) and William the Conqueror’s (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) fight for England in 1066.
The 40-year-old star, who has been linked to the role of James Bond this year, was in rehearsals just days before a scheduled break when he broke his collarbone after falling off a horse.
‘In some of the battle scenes in the latter half of the shoot, I’m yelping very loudly and the yelps are pretty authentic,’ he told The Times.
‘I fell off a horse and I landed on my shoulder. Actually it was a remarkably quick recovery and it didn’t affect shooting. Luckily we dealt with it. The collarbone recovers very quickly. It was just quite painful.’
It means some of the Battle of Hastings scenes include some very realistic sound effects as James was shouting out in agony.
James Norton shared he sustained an injury from falling off a horse during filming (Picture: James Veysey/Shutterstock) He said he had a ‘remarkably quick recovery’ from the painful injury (Picture: BBC/Lilja Jons) The new drama is coming to BBC this weekend (Picture: BBC / CBS Studios)However, the scariest part of the whole ordeal was knowing he’d have to tell Kitty Kaletsky, the drama’s executive producer, about his accident.
He recalled: ‘I was doing all my own stunts but I had an amazing stunt double who I was in the hospital with. There was like a moment where we said, “We’re f***ed. Are you going to call Kitty, or am I?” ‘
Norton wasn’t the only to sustain an injury from filming, as one extra needed his nose bandaged up after James went a bit too far during a shoot in Iceland.
