ITV A Cruel Love star Lucy Boynton felt 'sick' reading real-life transcripts for Ruth Ellis role

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Actress Lucy Boynton has shared her emotional reaction to reading the real-life court transcripts for her new ITV drama.The 31-year-old star appeared on Thursday's episode of The One Show, where she gave viewers a glimpse into her new series, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story.

In this four-part historical drama, Lucy takes on the role of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, with Toby Jones playing her solicitor John Bickford.

However, the tragic real-life story left Lucy feeling deeply affected, as she confessed to The One Show hosts Alex Jones and Roman Kemp that she struggled to "switch off".

Roman asked: "It's really fascinating that in the court scenes, you've used the real transcripts on what was said. So you're reading it out verbatim, what was that like?" To which Lucy responded: "Sickening.To sit there as a contemporary person and to witness the misogyny and classism at play that swayed that trial was profoundly affecting." She further explained: "And I mean the things like in 1955, the year of her trial, you couldn't get a divorced processed in fewer than six months because it was seen as permanent.