The hardest part of filming 'Bridgerton' sex scenes is taking off those complicated Regency costumes, the show's intimacy coordinator says

• Insider spoke with "Bridgerton" intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot about this season's sex scenes.
• Talbot revealed that the hardest part of filming sex scenes for the show is the Regency costumes.

There's many things to consider when filming a sex scene for TV. But it's even harder to capture moments of passion when you're dealing with a lot of clothes — and a lot of buttons.

Insider recently spoke to "Bridgerton" intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot, who choreographs all the steamy scenes for the popular Netflix series. And Talbot revealed that the hardest part of filming passionate scenes for the show — which takes place in the 19th century — is taking off the Regency-era costumes.

"A huge part of doing any intimacy scene in the Regency period is how to get the costumes off, because they're not easy," Talbot said with a laugh.

"They were often dressed by other people, so all of the fastenings are at the back," she explained of the era's attire. "That's always a real challenge because you're now working with two characters who aren't potentially used to undressing the opposite sex in that way."

It can definitely get tricky, but Talbot said Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley — who play enemies-turned-lovers Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma — actually helped choreograph their big sex scene in the second season.

"Jonny and Simone both had really wonderful suggestions on how to get out of their own costumes, because obviously they get in and out of them all day, every day," she said. "It was really cool to see them suggest how gloves come off, how they wanted to very intentionally pull down stockings, and remove shoes and take off shirts."

It took two days to film episode seven's pivotal sex scene, and Talbot said that was partially due to the difficult costumes.

"These sex scenes can take a long time, and we're working very intentionally with Regency costumes — which all have to be reset as well," she said. "Every take, if you take something off, you have to schedule time to put it on to take it off again. So they aren't short scenes to film by any stretch of the imagination."

Upon its premiere in 2021, "Bridgerton" was praised for being one of the few shows on TV that dared to show sex solely through the lens of female pleasure.

And Talbot told Insider that director Cheryl Dunye wanted to stay true to that vision in season two.

"She was so intentional about making sure that we weren't going to get into penetrative sex, which I certainly appreciated because that was my take on it too," Talbot said. "We were going to see it again from an angle of female pleasure, and she was so supportive and on board with that."

Talbot said Bailey and Ashley were also "so perfect with each other" during the passionate scene, truly working as a team.

"It's always amazing when you get to work with actors who take care of their scene partners," she said. "Jonny brings such an air of joy to the scene that it doesn't get intense and it doesn't get fraught, and he's very intentional about that. And Simone approached the scene with such confidence and real grace, and just a beautiful physicality."