GRANTCHESTER star Morven Christie has said there is “nothing sexy” about kissing TV drama heartthrob James Norton on set.

While she bagged the role of love interest to Malton actor Norton’s crime-solving clergyman Sidney Chambers, she said filming the pair’s most intimate scenes was far from romantic.

In an interview for ITV’s Good Morning Britain, she said: “That always cracks me up - there is nothing at all sexy about doing a kiss in front of a camera, with 40 crew saying ‘can you tilt your head a bit’, or ‘your nose is getting a bit squashed’. It is James Norton, but I know him too well, so...”

But Norton, pictured above, painted a much warmer picture of the pair’s relationship behind the scenes.

Speaking of Christie, he said: “Chemistry was there right from the start, in two minutes. When you are real with someone behind camera, that shows in front of it.”

Norton stole viewers’ hearts when he played doomed prince Andrei Bolkonsky in last year’s hit TV drama War and Peace, adding to his solid fan base since joining the first season of Grantchester in 2014.

Grantchester returns to ITV tomorrow at 9pm.