Considering that Bridgerton surfaced Netflix at December 2020, nobody — not even the throw — was able to stop talking about the show’s numerous sex scenes.
“I watched it with my grandparents. With my loved ones, we just skipped episode 6. It turned out to be a no-go!”
While attempting to fend off overzealous suitors, she struck up a friendship with Simon, the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page), with whom she eventually fell in love.
Over the course of Daphne and Simon’s relationship, things got very, very unkind — and that’s without even taking into account the other sex scenes including Anthony and his lover, Siena (Sabrina Bartlett), and Benedict’s various exploits.
“I had to sort of sit from the remote and quickly forward the bits before episode 6 which are marginally on the precarious side too,” Dynevor lasted on Conan. “I am like,’You do not have to see this piece!'”
When Page hosted Saturday Night Live at February, the cast poked fun at those”pieces” in a place where two inexperienced crew members needed to substitute for the intimacy coordinator while she was out.
But, Lizzy Talbot, ” the show’s real-life intimacy coordinator, has said that filming the show’ steamiest moments is much less hot than a viewer might assume. “It’s not very glamorous at all,” she told CNN in January.
For his role, creator and showrunner Chris Van Dusen has confessed the intricate choreography involved in each of these scenes, but noticed that the writers try to ensure that every instance of sex or nudity includes a purpose beyond titillation.
“We have a great deal of sex on the series, but nothing is gratuitous,” he advised Esquire in January. “There’s no scene where we’re having our personalities have sex only to be having sex. We are constantly pushing the narrative forward and telling a story through these scenes.”
Season 2 has only just begun filming, but when Julia Quinn’s source material is anything to go by, there’ll be plenty more blush-inspiring minutes. Van Dusen told Vanity Fair that the new episodes will showcase”summit thirst,” although Page will not return as Simon.
“We’re motivated by really delicious romance books,” Van Dusen said in January. “Along with the sensuality [and] sexuality was something which we were excited to be able to lean in on the display “