Filming “The Uprising” gave British actor Woody Norman, who plays 14-year-old King Richard II in the historical fiction drama, a massive headache. It turns out the only crown they had for him to use during the shoot got damaged the first day of filming. We had put foam in it, but it didn’t work.
It was steel against my head.” “The Uprising,” written and directed by Paul Greengrass, is based on the real-life Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 England. Andrew Garfield toplines the film as a fictional farmer – known only as Ploughman – who sparks and helps lead thousands of commoners on a march to protest the king in London. In addition to the dented crown, Norman had to endure the royal wardrobe, including “really heavy” robes.
That really got to my head because they would do it every day.” Norman’s first day shooting with Garfield was a pivotal fight scene between Ploughman and the king. He immediately went, ‘I love you, and come on, come on!’ I was like, ‘OK,, we’re both actors. We can do this.’ It completely removed that sense of awe and made us both professionals.
I’m very, very grateful for that.” The scene involved Ploughman shoving a paper scroll into the king’s mouth. It was cool to rub my tongue on my on my teeth and go, ‘Oh, the uprising.’” Norman first gained attention when he was just 10 years old and starred opposite Joaquin Phoenix in the 2021 Mike Mills drama “C’mon C’mon.” “One of the great men on the planet is Joaquin,” Norman says. I didn’t know I was an actor.
I didn’t know this was a job. I was having fun, and then he made me realize that it doesn’t have to be a job. It’s a way of creating, and you know, now after working with Joaquin, I’m fully vegan because of course I am.” “There was a interaction we had where I was eating meat and he was like, ‘Why don’t you just stop eating meat?’” he remembers.
Variety’s Leo Barraclough exclusively reported that Norman will star in the British urban horror thriller “Skag & Bone” along with Malachi Kirby, Tuppence Middleton, Conrad Khan, Kola Bokinni.
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