THIS Hollywood star may have been in the county donning the bowler and cigar as Winston Churchill for a new series, but he took some time to enjoy the best of Sussex.

Two time Golden Globe winner John Lithgow was in the county filming at Shoreham Airport for new Netflix series The Crown.

The Crown will be the most expensive series produced by Netflix to date after beating bids from the BBC - with Danny Cohen, director of television at the broadcaster, conceding they “couldn’t compete”.

The show is a biographical drama following the reign of Elizabeth II and is scheduled for its premiere on the subscription internet television service next year.

But Mr Lithgow took to social media to share his Sussex Sunday as the 70-year-old, known for his roles in movies Interstellar, Footloose and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, was in Lewes and across the Seven Sisters.

His afternoon started with a reserved pub lunch at The Swan in Lewes as he tucked into roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, hailing the team at the pub as the “best barmaids” in town.

The star then headed down to Beachy Head with his wife Mary Yeager, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, wandering through the downs and observing the county’s grazing sheep.

After his relaxing afternoon, following which he posted a selfie, the star got into costume on Monday as he spent the day as wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Shoreham Airport filming scenes for the drama.

Netflix is reportedly spending £100m on the drama, which will be shown over six seasons and will document the Queen’s life since 1947.

It is being written by Peter Morgan, who has famously penned the films The Queen, Frost/Nixon, and Rush, and is being directed by Stephen Daldry, the vision behind The Hours, Billy Elliott, and The Reader.

Claire Foy, known as Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall and Amy Dorritt in Little Dorrit, plays the Queen, and Matt Smith, the 11th Doctor Who, plays Prince Philip.