#thgcastedit

I had sworn I wasn’t going to get back into a corset for a while. Now I am “Natalie Dormer with a machine gun” [in the Hunger Games] but 20 months ago I was “Natalie Dormer always in a corset”. It had to be a really strong story to warrant me getting back into a corset but I read the book and it was so incredible and engaging and intoxicating, I thought: I don’t want anyone else to play this woman.

The Scandalous Lady W is set to be the BBC’s most racy costume drama yet. According to Dormer, playing the promiscuous part proved ‘exhausting’ as all the sex scenes had to be shot in a single day. “We were shooting on a tight budget and tight schedule so the director filmed all the sex scenes in one day - by the end of the day I was a mess!” x