James Norton loves a challenge. Physical or mental, he’s there for it. Move over Wim Hof, Norton freezes his fear on a daily basis with an ice bath, cold shower or, ideally, a cold-water swim. The actor, most recently seen producing a career-best performance in the final series of Happy Valley began the year swimming in the sea every day. “I do believe in it,” he says. “This is not a fad.”
Now Norton is immersing himself in something equally exhilarating. The actor is taking on the role of Jude in a stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s novel, A Little.