Intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot choreographed all thesex scenes on "Bridgerton ."- Talbot said Daphne and Simon's post-wedding sex montage was hardest to film, calling it an "intimacy circus."
- Her favorite scene was the one where Simon performs oral sex on Daphne in the library.
Even if you haven't watched "Bridgerton" yet, you've probably heard that the hit Netflix show has steamy sex scenes - and a lot of them.
Now intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot - who coordinated all the raunchy moments in the soapy period series - is giving Insider the scoop on which scenes were the hardest to film and which were the most fun.
The most challenging 'Bridgerton' sex scene had multiple locations
The "Taylor Swift montage," as Talbot calls it, features Daphne Bridgerton ("There's so much going on there," Talbot said with a laugh. "We were in loads of different locations all over the country, we were inside, outside, up ladders, we were everywhere! We were working in the dry and in the rain, on flagstone floors and up against walls and in Regency beds. So that was a bit of an intimacy circus going on there."
While the scene only runs for three minutes, it actually took months to coordinate. And the rain made it extra tricky.
"You're working with actors that are wet so you've got to be careful about wigs, you've got to be careful about costume," Talbot previously told The Hollywood Reporter. "Also making sure that modesty garments are held on even though the actors are wet, because a lot of times they're held on with tape or glue, and making sure that that is still in place even with doing some very energetic scenes."
Anthony Bridgerton and Siena's frisky sex scenes were the most fun to film
The very first time we see Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) and his secret lover Siena (Sabrina Bartlett) in the series involves them having sex up against a tree. The frisky pair have countless sex scenes throughout "Bridgerton," and Talbot said the hardest part about filming with Bailey and Barlett was "keeping a straight face all the time."
"They were always making jokes and going off on tangents," she told Insider. "We had so much fun together, we were always laughing. It was a really great time."
One scene that was especially challenging to film due to the actors' hijinks was when Anthony and Siena have sex underneath the rafters of the town's boxing ring.
"We were rehearsing for that in a hotel and we kept getting notifications from production asking, 'Are you ready yet?' and we were dissolving into laughter so often," Talbot recalled. "It was a bit of a slow day!"
"They are so much fun to work with and you can imagine when we get all the intimacy barriers and the modesty garments, you add that in and it's almost impossible," she added.
Bailey recently told Digital Spy that he and Bartlett had known each other for years before filming "Bridgerton" together, so they were able to "hit the ground running."
He also praised Talbot, saying he couldn't believe "there was ever a time" when sets didn't have intimacy coordinators.
"It sort of felt like stunts, and brilliantly so, because we had an intimacy coordinator," Bailey added. "Because of that, it was all incredibly safe and it became really fun."
But Talbot's favorite sex scene to film was at the Reform Club, a private members' club in London
The scene, which is the very first one Dynevor filmed for "Bridgerton," shows Simon performing oral sex on Daphne in the library of his country estate.
The private members' club was a stand-in for the location, and Talbot loved that "Bridgerton" producer Shonda Rhimes was already blowing up conventions from the beginning of filming.
"It was super cheeky because women weren't allowed in there until 1980 and we're busting in and the first thing we're doing is a scene of oral pleasure," she said.
"I was like, I see you Shonda, I see how this is going to go for the next nine months. So that was really fun," Talbot added.