Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley helped choreograph their own sex scene

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 Bridgerton stars Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley were influential in preparing their own sex scene, the show’s intimacy coordinator has said. Talbot, who was also the intimacy coordinator on Bridgerton season one, said that filming sex scenes in a period drama is particularly challenging because of the size and complexity of the costumes. “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.” Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley in ‘Bridgerton’ Talbot said Bailey and Ashley were specifically influential in coordinating how they would remove each other’s clothes as they were used to getting in and out of the costumes every day. Bailey recently defended the drama’s lack of sex in an interview with USA Today, saying that “it would have been wrong for Kate and Anthony to have got physical any sooner than they did”.