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Richard Armitage as John Thornton in North and South Episode 1

“Take me to see this Mr Thornton.  If you won’t deal with me, I’ll have to deal with him.” (Margaret Hale)

 

Richard Armitage as John Thornton in North and South Episode 1
Richard Armitage as John Thornton in North and South
“I believe your daughter and I have already met …”
(John Thornton)
“I daresay a gentleman has not had to see 300 corpses laid out on a Yorkshire hillside …” (John Thornton)
Richard Armitage as John Thornton in North and South
“I should go …” (John Thornton)


Richard Armitage as John Thornton in North and South

“There’s a dark side to him, a threatening side, and that sort of mystery and intrigue … I thought it was important that Thornton should appear to be smarter than all of his contemporaries sitting around this table really, and whether that was for business reasons or whether it was for moral reasons, that is slightly ambiguous I think.”
(Brian Percival, N&S Director)



“Don’t worry Mother, I’m in no danger from Miss Hale.  She’s very unlikely to consider me a catch.  She’s from the South.  She doesn’t care for our Northern ways.”
(John Thornton)

“I think the little smile from Richard there was a nice touch.  We discussed that on the day and we just thought it makes us start to like him a little bit more and show that he has got a warm side ... ”
(Brian Percival, Director, N&S)


“She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown … solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness. She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist ...” (Elizabeth Gaskell, N&S Chapter 10)
“… Mr. Thornton watched … this … ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father.”
(Elizabeth Gaskell, N&S Chapter 10)
“She handed him his cup of tea with the proud air of an unwilling slave …” (Elizabeth Gaskell, N&S Chapter 10)
   
Margaret: You are mistaken - you don’t know anything about the south!
Thornton: I think that I might say that you do not know the north.


“I do know something of hardship  …” (John Thornton)


   
   
“I believe I’ve seen Hell and it’s white, snow white.” (Margaret Hale)

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