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James Norton on perfecting a Dublin accent for House of Guinness: ‘I knew if I didn’t work hard, I’d be really exposed’
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From the beginning of his career, James Norton was aware of the power and the pitfalls of being a wavy-haired British actor with a posh accent.
“There was a world in which I was going to get stuck in a kind of period drama, English thing,” the 40-year-old actor says. After all, Norton has a face – cleanly rugged, with teeth of a natural shape and hue – that is more Merchant Ivory than Instagram and continues to be among Britain’s most reliable on-screen exports.
But Norton, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London after graduating from the University of Cambridge, wants to avoid being pigeonholed. “Maybe it’s just a furious appetite for stress and chaos,” he says, chuckling. “But I’ve always wanted to keep challenging myself.”
So while his latest role is a period drama – House of Guinness, a rollicking new show from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, about the rise of the Irish brewing family – it also required him to perfect a convincing 1860s Dublin accent. (“I just knew if I didn’t work hard, I’d be really exposed,” Norton says.)
Early on, he made sure his agent knew about this appetite for challenge, and after working in theatre and smaller TV roles, Norton was cast as the villain of the BBC crime drama Happy Valley, which premiered in Britain in 2014. He played Tommy Lee Royce, a murderous, impoverished and disturbed man, locked in an ongoing battle with a police officer.
“Tommy is about as far removed from James as you can get,” says Sally Wainwright, the show’s creator. Yet in the dozens of auditions she saw for the role, Norton was the only actor who instinctively played the character as quite shy, with the vulnerability of someone who had survived a difficult childhood, she says. Norton brought something to the character that Wainwright hadn’t imagined when she wrote Tommy – which for her is the mark of a great actor, she says.
Happy Valley, which returned for new seasons in 2016 and 2023, made Norton a star in Britain. After the first season, when his agent told him she’d got a call about a potential role but there was concern about whether he could play someone “well spoken”, Norton was delighted; that confusion was “exactly what we want”, the actor recalls thinking.
In the years since, Norton has continued to be led by his appetite for challenge and learning – with a little fun thrown in.
For House of Guinness, which arrives on Netflix on Thursday, he learned a lot about social, religious and political upheaval in 19th-century Ireland, but he also got to “put on a cool top hat and a long black coat, and smoke a rollie, and feel like a badass”, he says.
Norton plays Seán Rafferty, the foreman of the Guinness factory and the man who does the dirty work that allows his employers to rise through Dublin society and rub shoulders with the aristocracy. Knight wanted an actor with a manager’s authority who could also convey emotional complexity when Rafferty becomes romantically involved with a Guinness family member.
Norton, whose performances are defined by charisma and a broad emotional range, was the showrunner’s first choice and signed on while Knight was still writing the script, he says. “When you get an actor that good, you can relax a bit,” Knight says, “because you don’t have to work too hard to get a point across.”
His status as one of Britain’s best and most strapping actors means that for more than a decade, Norton’s name has been coming up as a possible next James Bond. When the conversation moves to rumours about the role during a recent interview in a London hotel, Norton shifts in his seat.
“It’s all speculation and fun, weird, amusing, nonsense,” he says, laughing, “but it doesn’t mean anything.”
This summer, soon after Denis Villeneuve was announced as the director of the franchise’s first Amazon-produced film, Variety reported, citing anonymous “insiders”, that the studio wanted to cast an actor under 30. “I’m probably too old now,” Norton says, with what sounds a little like relief. (He celebrated his 40th birthday this summer with a 200-person party.)
As the Bond rumours swirl, Norton has continued working hard, often on overlapping projects. “If I have too much time and space, I start to become inactive,” he says. “The more spinning plates, the better.”
Since 2019, one larger plate has been a production company he helped found, Rabbit Track Pictures, so he could develop new projects from the start. He has produced several well-received movies and shows through the company, all of them (so far) starring himself, including the tense parenthood drama Playing Nice (which is streaming on BritBox), and King and Conqueror a BBC historical epic about the Battle of Hastings.
There’s no aspect of the company that Norton’s “DNA doesn’t touch” says Kitty Kaletsky, Rabbit Track’s other founder. Initially, she hadn’t expected such commitment or attention to detail from an already busy actor, she says.
Norton describes producing as “a bit like throwing the best dinner party ever”.
The art, he adds, is “knowing that that person will get on with that person, that the vibes will spark each other and will create something special”.
That alchemy was certainly at play when he took the lead role in the acclaimed Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s London stage production of A Little Life. Based on the hit 2015 novel by Hanya Yanagihara, the show centres on Jude, a New York City lawyer with a horrific past and tortured present. (Yanagihara is also the editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.)
Van Hove had previously directed a Dutch-language adaptation of the novel (which toured to New York), but working in another language, with a whole new team and Yanagihara sitting in on early rehearsals, was nerve-racking, the director says. As soon as he saw Norton as Jude, however, van Hove says he felt “totally at home”.
The actor was a “thinker,” with huge intelligence, as well as “a daredevil” who went to places that other actors wouldn’t, van Hove says.
Jude is onstage for almost all of the play’s four-hour run time, sometimes naked and sometimes slicing himself with a razor. Because Norton has Type 1 diabetes, he had to hide glucose shots around the set to surreptitiously take while onstage. There were up to eight performances a week. “It’s probably the hardest thing I’ll ever do,” Norton says.
And yet, when the run ended, he contacted the producers to suggest reprising the role. During the marathon performances, he went into something “like a flow state”, he says.
“You get into hyper awareness, which is really addictive,” he says. (Perhaps for the best, Norton acknowledges, another run hasn’t happened.)
Since A Little Life, Norton has been going to a Buddhist meditation retreat in the south of France, and has “started spending more time thinking about how to live one’s life,” he says. During what he called a “bucolic” childhood in the countryside of Yorkshire, northern England, he went to a Catholic high school, and then studied theology at college when his “relationship with faith turned into more of an academic interest”.
Now, “therapy and my Buddhist retreat have basically allowed me to just chill out”, Norton says, adding that they helped to manage the self-doubt that sometimes gets in the way of performing. He has also been letting go of the idea that acting is a “craft” with a “right and a wrong” approach. Instead, he has realised that “the brilliance is in the mess and the mistake”.
And for his next challenge? Norton met for the interview this summer during a break from filming season three of House of the Dragon, in which he plays Ormund Hightower. He had also been thinking about directing, he says, which “for some reason feels like the ultimate expression”.
“It scares me a lot,” Norton says of the director’s chair, “which is exactly why I should do it.” – New York Times
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“Giorgio Armani, Milano, for love’’ at the Brera Art Gallery opens today, mere weeks after the celebrated designer’s death at the age of 91.
Featuring 129 Armani looks from the 1980s through the present day, the exhibition places his creations among celebrated Italian masterpieces by such luminaries as Raphael and Caravaggio.
It is one of a series of Milan Fashion Week events that were planned before Armani’s death, to highlight his transformative influence on the world of fashion.
“From the start, Armani showed absolute rigor but also humility not common to great fashion figures,’’ said the gallery’s director Angelo Crespi. “He always said that he did not want to enter into close dialogue with great masterpieces, like Raphael, Mantegna, Caravaggio and Piero della Francesca.’’
Instead, the exhibition aims to create a symbiosis with the artworks, with the chosen looks reflecting the mood of each room without interrupting the flow of the museum experience – much the way Armani always intended his apparel to enhance and never overwhelm the individual.
A long blue asymmetrical skirt and bodysuit ensemble worn by Juliette Binoche at Cannes in 2016 neatly reflects the blue in Giovanni Bellini’s 1510 portrait “Madonna and Child”; a trio of underlit dresses glow on a wall opposite Raphael’s “The Marriage of the Virgin”; the famed soft-shouldered suit worn by Richard Gere in American Gigolo, arguably the garment that launched Armani to global fame, is set among detached frescoes by Donato Bramante. Every choice in the exhibition underscores the timelessness of Armani’s fashion.
Armani himself makes a cameo, on a t-shirt in the final room, opposite the Brera’s emblematic painting “Il Bacio” by Francesco Hayez.
“When I walk around, I think he would be super proud,’’ said Anoushka Borghesi, Armani’s global communications director.
Armani’s fashion house confirmed a series of events this week that Armani himself had planned to celebrate his 50th anniversary. They include the announcement of an initiative to support education for children in six Southeast Asian, African and South American countries. The project, in conjunction with the Catholic charity Caritas, is named “Mariu’,’’ an affectionate nickname for Armani’s mother.
In a final farewell, the last Giorgio Armani collection signed by the designer will be shown in the Brera Gallery on Sunday, among looks he personally chose to represent his 50-year legacy.
“Giorgio Armani – 50 Years” opened to the public today at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, Italy. The exhibition lasts until 11 January 2026.
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If you’re reading this today, Wednesday 24 September 2025 could be the last day before the end of the world as you know it.
If you’re reading this tomorrow, you weren’t blipped out of existence and good luck with all the rebuilding. Please do better.
Confused? We’ve got you covered.
According to the more holy corners of TikTok, it has been prophesized that yesterday – or today, they couldn’t make their minds up on which one, so just go with it – is the day of the Rapture.
For the filthy heathens among you, that’s the long-awaited end-time event when Jesus Christ returns to Earth, resurrects all dead Christian disciples and brings all believers “to meet the Lord in the air.”
It wasn’t yesterday, clearly, so today’s the day… And turn off that R.E.M. song, this is serious.
This all stems from South African pastor Joshua Mhlakela, who claimed that the Rapture will occur on 23 or 24 September 2025. Mhlakela said that this knowledge came directly from a dream he had in 2018, in which Jesus appeared to him. Mhlakela reiterated all of this on 9 September in an interview with CettwinzTV and since then, the prophecy has become a viral sensation on TikTok.
Many individuals on the social media platform have taken this literally and very seriously, with more than 350,000 videos appearing under the hashtag #rapturenow – leading to the trend / popular subsection dubbed ‘RaptureTok’.
Some videos mock the prophecy, but you don’t have to scroll for too long to find those who are completely convinced that it’s happening today.
There’s advice on how to prepare; tips on what to remove from your house should certain objects contain “demonic energy”; and testimonies of people selling their possessions. One man, who goes by the name Tilahun on TikTok, shared a video last month, in which he said he was selling his car in preparation for the big day. “Car is gone just like the Brides of Christ will be in September,” he said.
One woman in North Carolina was live recording yesterday from the Blue Ridge Mountains, fervently keeping an eye on any holy activity in the sky. Another claimed that her 3-year-old started speaking in Hebrew, thereby confirming that it’s all legit.
Some more distressing videos include American evangelicals saying goodbye to their children for the last time… We won’t share those, as they’re actually quite depressing.
It’s hard to completely blame TikTok users for wanting the final curtain to drop, as things aren’t going too great down here on Earth. That being said, it’s worth noting that the Bible never actually mentions the Rapture; it’s a relatively recent doctrine that originates from the early 1800s, one which has gained traction among fundamentalist theologians – specifically in the US, where everything is fine, civil conversation is alive and well, no one’s worried, and they’re all enjoying their “God-given freedoms”.
So, if the Rapture does come to pass, we here at Euronews Culture will be eating a whole concrete mixer full of humble pie. If it doesn’t, see you tomorrow, and do spare a thought for those who are going to be very disappointed on Thursday 25 September.
And if extra-terrestrial beings followed Tara Rule’s advice (see below), thank you alien visitors for joining in on the fun. And if you could provide some much-needed guidance on how to do better, that would be grand.
Only a few more hours left to find out…
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