Aisling Bea explains why she struggled to film intimate scene with Romesh Ranganathan

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Aisling Bea has revealed why she struggled to film sex scenes with fellow comedian Romesh Ranganathan in their new series. Opening up about her relationship with Ranganathan, 46, Bea explained that they’ve been friends for approximately 15 years – so it was “totally harder” to be intimate during their scenes. “We’ve been friends for about 15 years but this is the second series of his show that he wrote and it’s all about a man going through a divorce and then in comes my character in series two – sparks fly perhaps, sure,” the actor, from Kildare, Ireland, said. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free “I was supposed to have keyhole surgery on my shoulder from an accident two days beforehand but when I went in, they found out my arm was hanging off,” she said open image in gallery Romesh Ranganathan acting in ‘Avoidance' “They had to go in and totally reconstruct my shoulder while I was asleep.