James Norton will be back on our screens very soon, and he’ll be playing a very influential figure in the Netflix film Joy.
The streaming service has revealed that the popular Grantchester actor will play groundbreaking scientist Robert Edwards in the dramatisation of a true story.
Joy tells the remarkable tale behind the birth of Louise Joy Brown in 1978, the world’s first ‘test-tube-baby’. Of course, we now know it more commonly as IVF.
Here’s everything we know so far about the Netflix film Joy, which sees James Norton reunited with his Happy Valley co-star. Let’s hope she doesn’t hold a grudge as his character was devastatingly vile to her!
James Norton plays scientist Robert Edwards in Joy on Netflix
Netflix has confirmed that James Norton leads the cast in the upcoming film Joy.
Joy dramatises the true story behind the ground-breaking birth of the world’s first ‘test-tube-baby’, Louise Joy Brown in 1978. The film will show the tireless 10-year journey that make it possible.
The film is told through the perspective of Jean Purdy. Jean was a young nurse and embryologist, who joined forces with scientist Robert Edwards and surgeon Patrick Steptoe.
Together they aimed “to unlock the puzzle of infertility by pioneering in vitro fertilisation (IVF)”.
Netflix tells us: “The film celebrates the power of perseverance and the wonders of science as it follows this maverick trio of visionaries. They overcame tremendous odds and opposition to realise their dream, and in doing so allowed millions of people to dream with them.”
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