![]() Lady Chatterley's Lover will air on BBC One in September. ‘It’s a bottom that could hold the world up.’ In one scene, Mellors strokes his lover’s thigh and tells her: ‘You’ve got a real soft sloping bottom. And while naked flesh may not be in abundance, there is some X-rated language. He is mortified when he discovers that his wife has fallen in love with gamekeeper Oliver Mellors and is carrying his child.īut despite the lack of overt nudity, BBC bosses hope their new version, which features three sexual encounters between Constance and Mellors, will deliver its own erotic charge. The arrogant and ruthless Sir Clifford Chatterley, played by Happy Valley’s James Norton, is desperate for an heir to inherit his mining fortune so is not averse to the idea of Constance sleeping with other men – as long as they are from the right social class. Lawrence’s novel about love across the social divide tells the story of Constance Chatterley, a married woman who seeks sexual satisfaction elsewhere after her husband is wounded during the First World War and left paralysed from the waist down. ![]() Swearing or sex scenes don’t excite me because they don’t have emotional content.’ The idea was to tell this as a love story, a love triangle. He was making a point about artistic expression. Lawrence used a certain type of language in the book because it was ground-breaking. ![]() The raunchy DH Lawrence novel has been made into a 90-minute drama, and will show gamekeeper Oliver Mellors romping with a naked Lady Chatterley
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