Insider spoke with the Netflix show's intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot about the making of the season's most intimate scenes. She revealed that Bailey and Ashley gave input on how the passionate moments should unfold.
"They know their characters so inside out," Talbot told Insider of the season-two leads. "They know exactly what their character would do in this moment, and they can bring so much to the scene because of that. It's always a gift when you've got actors who really understand their characters."
"A huge part of doing any intimacy scene in the Regency period is how to get the costumes off, because they're not easy," she said.
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"They were often dressed by other people, so all of the fastenings are at the back," Talbot 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."
But Talbot said Bailey and Ashley were essential when it came to figuring out how to undress their characters.
"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.
She continued: "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."
"Jonny brings such wonderful energy, charm, and hilarity," she said, "and Simone is so confident, cool, calm, collected. It was a really beautiful merging."
"It's a different type of intimacy that we see, but we're also still working in the Regency period," Talbot said.
"We see Daphne and Simon's relationship in far more explicit detail because they get married a lot earlier on in season one," she went on, referring to the characters played by Phoebe Dynevor and Regé-Jean Page, respectively.
Talbot explained that the dynamic between Kate and Anthony is more of a "charged forbidden want," that eventually is "released in the final two episodes."
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"We've done the characters justice and have really ensured that every sex scene has been earned properly," she said. "We're still staying true to the female gaze and the intentional viewpoint that 'Bridgerton' always has, and I think we've stayed true to the characters' arc of this forbidden love journey."
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