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That celebrated obscenity trial, in which the jury gave a unanimous not-guilty verdict, was credited as the start of a new, liberal era, but viewers tuning in next month for titillation may be best advised to look elsewhere. While there are a couple of mildly raunchy scenes between Mellors, played by Richard Madden, who has starred in Game of Thrones, and Grainger, who played Estella in Mike Newell’s adaptation of Dickens’s Great Expectations, Mercurio said he was at pains not to focus heavily on either the novel’s sexual content or its prodigious use of swearing.
“It doesn’t excite me to write some swearing or sex scenes because they don’t have emotional context,” Mercurio said. “What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional lives of the characters. Lawrence introduced those elements into his book at a time when he felt a great desire and responsibility to push the boundaries of artistic expression. I’m fortunate I’m not in that position. If I want to write those things no one is stopping me. But that wasn’t the case for Lawrence.”
“It doesn’t excite me to write some swearing or sex scenes because they don’t have emotional context,” Mercurio said. “What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional lives of the characters. Lawrence introduced those elements into his book at a time when he felt a great desire and responsibility to push the boundaries of artistic expression. I’m fortunate I’m not in that position. If I want to write those things no one is stopping me. But that wasn’t the case for Lawrence.”
