“I think it was torture for him to be born gay in a world that didn’t accept being gay. In 1960s Britain, homosexuality wasn’t just taboo, it was a criminal act. But when he cooled on their relationship, he cut Scott off, and the younger man began to threaten exposure. He wrote torrents of love letters to the naïve small town boy, who was taken in by the power and celebrity of the Member of Parliament-and later leader of the Liberal Party. “From one perspective, he was a monster of narcissism and entitlement,” Grant says of Thorpe. Davies from John Preston’s book of the same name, Grant plays Thorpe, the British politician whose affair with a stable boy, Norman Scott (Whishaw), caused a sensation when it transpired that Thorpe had plotted to murder Scott to keep him from revealing their dalliance. ![]() ![]() In Stephen Frears’ four-part retelling of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal on Amazon, adapted by Russell T. Hugh Grant To Star With Nicole Kidman In HBO Limited Series 'The Undoing'Īll three are creative ways in which to antagonize, but only A Very English Scandal is based in truth.
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