When you talk to Norris, it’s easy to forget his clear talent and success. She was back auditioning two weeks after the birth, and the family are set to travel down to Cornwall in September for the filming of series three of Poldark, with Norris snatching writing sessions between takes and baby duties. He admits to being “pretty gooey” over the new arrival, but neither he nor his wife are compromising careers for children. “It would be a different response to me getting my kit off like that.” “I wouldn’t look like that for a start,” he says of Turner’s famous scythe scene. Yet this seems to be something of a relief to the 30-year-old. He got his big television break when he was cast as nice-guy Dr Dwight Enys in the BBC’s Poldark, although it wasn’t his bared torso that set the nation’s pulse racing unlike co-star Aidan Turner. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has combined these successes with lauded performances in the likes of A View from the Bridge and Matthew Xia’s revival of Joe Penhall’s production of Blue/Orange, both at the Young Vic. His new play, Growth, is currently on in Edinburgh, following the acclaim garnered for his first one (Goodbye to All That, at the Royal Court), and his second (So Here We Are, which won the Bruntwood Prize for playwriting). Luke Norris is one of the UK’s most talented young actors and playwrights, and is good-looking to boot, but he is unlikely to crop up as a Hollywood superhero. Actor and playwright Luke Norris talks to Boudicca Fox-Leonard about Poldark, public schools and his old friend Kit Harington
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