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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Roisin O'Connor

King & Conqueror star Emily Beecham says her wig almost ‘suffocated’ James Norton during sex scenes

Emily Beecham has joked that her King & Conqueror co-star James Norton was “suffocated” by her wig during the sex scenes they shot for the BBC’s new historical drama.

The actor stars as Edith the Fair opposite Norton’s Harold Godwinson in the medieval period drama, a fictionalised retelling of the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England.

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