An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
Acting
Madden's smoldering physicality, Grainger's quiet transformation
Cinematography
Mist-shrouded English countryside as third character
Direction
Mercurio brings Bodyguard tension to period restraint
Director
Jed Mercurio
Richard Madden
Oliver Mellors
Holliday Grainger
Lady Constance Chatterley
James Norton
Sir Clifford Chatterley
Howard Ward
Betts
Elizabeth Rider
Mrs. Betts
Tony Pritchard
Field
Jodie Comer
Ivy Bolton
Enzo Cilenti
Victor Linley
Ian Peck
Harry Dale
Eve Ponsonby
Hilda Reid
Edward Holcroft
Duncan Forbes
Gavin Lee Lewis
WW1 Soldier
Lisa Jay Jenkins
Fairground Worker
Dylan Jones
Horse groom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Madden and Grainger had previously starred together in Disney's Cinderella—very different energy.
Lawrence's 1928 novel was banned for obscenity until 1960; this BBC adaptation still caused Twitter meltdowns over Madden's nudity.
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