

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
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.