BAZ BAMIGBOYE: After his triumph as Charles in The Crown...why Josh O'Connor is the Prince of Tales

Josh O'Connor, who has won widespread acclaim for his portrayal of the Prince of Wales in The Crown, said there was a 'special beauty' about the love scenes in his new film, Mothering Sunday, because they were shot during the pandemic, at a time when simply touching another person felt illicit. Josh O'Connor, who has won widespread acclaim for his portrayal of the Prince of Wales in The Crown, said there was a 'special beauty' about the love scenes in his new film, Mothering Sunday, because they were shot during the pandemic, at a time when simply touching another person felt illicit The actor, who has just been nominated for an Emmy award for his Charles, appears alongside Odessa Young in Mothering Sunday 'He can be totally naked physically, but also emotionally, with Jane; vulnerable in a way he can't be with anyone else,' the 31-year-old told me at a penthouse apartment in Cannes, a stone's throw from where the picture premiered the night before. There was something enormously touching in the sight of Honor Swinton Byrne queuing up, in Cannes, to watch a Classics screening of Peter Wollen's 1987 sci-fi marvel Friendship's Death, starring Fleabag's Bill Paterson... and her mother, Tilda Swinton For me, that picture is one of the year's best so far; and the energy the pair project is heaven for film fans. Earlier, I had seen mother and daughter — playing mother and daughter — in Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir: Part II Now Noemie's a lady on fire with a camera French actress Noemie Merlant, who won acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 for the arthouse hit Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, strode up a flight of wooden steps — in her Louis Vuitton heels and designer shorts — to a rooftop terrace with a stunning view of the clear blue sky and verdant mountains. French actress Noemie Merlant, who won acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 for the arthouse hit Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, strode up a flight of wooden steps — in her Christian Louboutin heels and designer shorts — to a rooftop terrace with a stunning view of the clear blue sky and verdant mountains The movie, Merlant's first as a feature director, grew out of her friendship with Covaci, whom she met when both were working on a short film she directed called Shakira in Paris a couple of years ago.