Had things played out differently, Natalie Dormer’s face would be splashed across magazine covers right now. The actor would be sitting on chat shows, chummily sharing anecdotes about her time on Game of Thrones and charming the pants off Graham Norton. She would be giving interview after interview about her glossy new ITV series The Lady, which concerns Jane Andrews, the royal dresser to Sarah Ferguson, who went on to murder her businessman boyfriend, Thomas Cressman, at their London home in 2000. Dormer, in a bouncy red blowout and shoulder pads, plays the then-Duchess of York.
But as luck would have it, Dormer is doing none of these things. You’d hardly know she was in the show if you were not tuning in yourself. The publicity circuit in general for The Lady has been very hush-hush if not totally non-existent after Dormer pulled out of promoting the series back in September.
