Fox yearns for thrill of the chase

ACTOR Laurence Fox, who plays Viscount Palmerston in the ITV series Victoria, is clearly champing at the bit to take on a more frisky role.

‘I would like to play an English Indiana Jones on horseback and I’m not kidding,’ the 40-year-old Old Harrovian tells me. ‘I would love for someone to ask me what am I doing today and for me to reply: “I’m going on a horse and have to go shoot someone with a bow and arrow”.

‘I would rather that than be in some courtroom jury drama and having to be stuck in there for eight hours. No thanks.’