Nicholas Galitzine felt ‘comfort and confidence’ with Mary & George sex scenes

The actor spoke to Yahoo UK about starring in raunchy Sky drama Mary &amp; George, and the importance of having an intimacy coordinator on set.

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00:00 Nicholas, obviously by the nature of the show,

00:02 there's a lot of sex scenes in it, especially with you.

00:05 And I wondered, how did you feel having those scenes,

00:08 but also did you have an intimacy coordinator to work with

00:11 to make sure that you felt safe and comfortable

00:13 whilst doing those scenes?

00:14 Yeah, we had an excellent intimacy coordinator.

00:17 And, you know, Oliver Hermanus, our wonderful director,

00:22 and I spoke very early on about how, you know,

00:25 what we wanted these scenes to be,

00:28 the purpose we wanted them to serve and how they'd be done.

00:31 And I really felt, actually, starting the project,

00:35 my first three scenes, I think, in the project were all sex scenes.

00:38 And I think I immediately sort of felt a level of comfort

00:44 and confidence and actually excitement that, like, this was,

00:48 this is George's currency.

00:49 I felt like I was really getting to know George

00:52 through those scenes in a way,

00:53 because this is how he operated in the world

00:56 and how he chose to dominate people often.

00:58 So it was actually quite exciting in a way.

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