He played violent rapist Tommy Lee Royce in the BBC drama With more opportunities beckoning — there are even rumors he could be “It was a combination of things [why I chose to leave],” “It felt like it would be better to hand over the baton to someone else and give Grantchester a fresh injection of energy,” he added.Fans will have to tune in to see exactly what makes Sidney Chambers decide to leave Grantchester for good. In Bafta-winning Happy Valley, where he plays a sociopathEddie Redmayne's status as an Old Etonian overshadows news of his achievements in the press, Norton says"I became a bit religious," Norton says of his time at AmpleforthGranchester is based on the mystery novel series of the same name He’s just a very normal, very sympathetic young man who most people can identify with.”For research, Norton read the latter’s autobiography, “My love life right now is infinitely less interesting that that of any of my characters,” he says, but in time is looking forward marriage and fatherhood.”I definitely want that, because my sister and I were raised in a really close family and my parents are still very much in love and living in Yorkshire.

In real life, you’re just so bland and normal-looking…’”In the flesh, Norton is tall, blond and every bit as handsome as muscle-chested Prince Andrei Bolkonsky in the BBC adaptation of War & Peace – or, indeed, Reverend Sidney Chambers, the pushbike-riding 1950s cleric with a complicated love life, whom he plays in So how did he get into shape for what has already been compared to a ‘Poldark-scything-in-the- fields’ moment?“Well, you can’t show up with a beer belly,” he says, with a laugh, “but you can’t be in incredible gym condition either – that’s just going to look ridiculous. "When people go on about the way that you look...what they’re seeing isn’t really you" James Norton as Sidney Chambers in Grantchester | Courtesy of Kudos and MASTERPIECE. “People really love James Norton. He’s shaven-headed, tattooed, physically pumped up, with a malevolent energy that seems to make the very bars at his window crackle.Given Norton’s posh credentials it’s a wonder, he says, that he was ever cast in the role of this consummate, working class thug. He’s not a comic device or a villain. “In the new series, Royce is in prison awaiting trial for rape and abduction. The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes To watch The Telegraph's latest video content please visit

But, as actors, that’s frustrating because it’s our job to transform. “Because none of them is anything to do with the industry, they’ve always been slightly bemused by the fact that I wanted to act ever since I played Joseph in the nativity play at the age of four.“After that, I’m sure I was an annoying, precocious little kid who just wanted to dress up and get all the attention.

So you’re standing on the pitch going ‘Oh, my God!’ I look back now and it seems ridiculous but, at the time, it felt quite big.”“But, still, being at Ampleforth, and then going on to study theology at Cambridge, gave me a lack of cynicism about faith and a respect and fascination for all religions.”“Part of the reason that I love Grantchester is that it’s a show in which the hero is a man of faith. Blame the fact that, although he may have an impressive physique now, he was a puny, late developer.“Teenage years are tricky for everyone, but when you’re 15 and it’s an all-boys boarding school, as it was then, and you go through puberty late, it makes a huge difference.“You’re a little boy in a testosterone-fuelled world – and, in my case, one who was into arts and music when everyone else was into rugby. “I was sitting opposite my great-aunt Grania at a family lunch the other day and she was staring at me, in a quizzical way. I’d write all these weird little plays and force all my friends to act in them, when they probably just wanted to play football. Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions. “I wanted Sidney to be the victim of a gruesome murder and then the new vicar would have to investigate the crime.”“I’m so happy the writer handled it in that way,” Brittney said.

One thing we do know is that producers didn’t take Norton’s suggestion that his character should be killed off. If people saw me through a keyhole, as my life really is, they’d go: ‘Oh!’ The risk is that you start to read this stuff about yourself and engage with it and believe it. It’s the character.“Prince Andrei, for example, was set up to be a romantic hero, but that’s not who I am.

That’s the kind of end game that I would love, too.”We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Then she said: ‘Honestly, James, I just can’t understand why you look so good on the telly.

Help us build our profile of James Norton! “They want the character to walk through the door because that makes everyone’s life easier. Contribute. “I had a couple of light-hearted conversations with some of the producers offering my dramatic, absurd, farfetched versions of his exit,” he told Radio Times. W hen you’re as naturally good-looking as James Norton, you get used to strangers staring at you.When members of your family do it, it can be unnerving – rude, even. You don’t want it to be: ‘OK, today the guy you love is gone, so get used to this new guy.’ That could have gone badly.” After all, he’s a former public school boy himself who went to Rada via Cambridge, where he gained a first in theology – handy for his role as Sidney Chambers, but not so much as Royce.“Mostly producers worry about casting against type,” he says.

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