James Norton was rushed to hospital with a damaged collarbone after being thrown from a horse on the set of his new TV present.
James Norton broke his collarbone when he fell from a horse
The 40-year-old actor has revealed he suffered a painful accident throughout rehearsals for his historic BBC sequence King and Conqueror – set round Britain’s Battle of Hastings in 1066 – and he was left nursing a damaged bone all through the remainder of the shoot.
He instructed The Instances newspaper: “In among the battle scenes within the latter half of the shoot, I’m yelping very loudly and the yelps are fairly genuine.
“I fell off a horse and I landed on my shoulder. Truly it was a remarkably fast restoration and it didn’t have an effect on taking pictures. Fortunately we handled it. The collarbone recovers in a short time. It was simply fairly painful.”
James went on to disclose he was most scared about having to inform the present’s govt producer Kitty Kaletsky about his fall from the horse.
He added: “I used to be doing all my very own stunts however I had an incredible stunt double who I used to be within the hospital with.
“There was like a second the place we mentioned: ‘We’re f*****. Are you going to name Kitty, or am I?'”
The actor went on to disclose there was one other nasty second on set when he needed to chunk the nostril of an additional throughout a struggle scene and he clamped his tooth down too exhausting.
James defined: “I actually bit his nostril. The poor man. I went by way of his pores and skin. It was horrible. The next day the man got here into rehearsals with an enormous bandage.
“It was like some type of comedy. However I used to be simply getting actually into it.”
James revealed the nose-biting scene was thought up by director Baltasar Kormakur on the final minute and it was virtually minimize after the accident, however the actor is happy the gory second made the ultimate minimize.
The McMafia star beforehand insisted the present is just not a “cosy” interval drama and the shoot was “brutal”.
He instructed Deadline.com: “I used to be coated in mud and blood and layers of leather-based, it was a brutal shoot …
“[Kormakur] had a really clear imaginative and prescient across the tone and the aesthetic – from the very starting he needed to keep away from this being a clear, cozy interval drama …
“It took me hours each day to prepare as a result of I had layer after layer of leather-based and chain mail. It paid dividends as a result of you may see all the things is so genuine.
“That was one thing [Kormakur] was very cussed about and it was so value it in the long run.”
