Actress Elle Fanning has opened up about her steamy romps in the TV show The Great.
Elle, 22, plays Catherine the Great of Russia in the Hulu series – an 18th Century empress known for her huge sexual appetite.
During the ten-part series former child star Elle bed-hops between her husband and lover Leo Voronsky, played by Sebastian De Souza.
Elle told how sex scenes in the new show are “crazy” and “outrageous”, The Sun reported.
The Maleficent actress said “Catherine The Great’s sexuality blossomed” and she loved being experimental, so of “course that would be a big part of her character”.
Elle, 22, plays Catherine the Great in the Hulu series (Image: Getty Images for Chopard)
She said: “Sex is a really big part of the show.
“Also, a lot of it was so outrageous that we would just laugh through it.
She added “Most of the time she thought ‘This [the sex scenes] is crazy’.”
An “intimacy coordinator” was brought in on the show to ensure the well-being of the cast because of the graphic content.
Elle said the sex scenes in the show were so “outrageous” that she and fellow actors would “just laugh through it”
X-Men actor Nicholas Hoult, 30, was cast as her husband in the drama and is also a former child star who made his screen debut at the age of seven in the 1996 film Intimate Relations.
She said she was revealed she was cast alongside him as they have similar approaches to acting, which made the sex scenes easier to film.
The actress said: “I’m glad I had Nick as that partner to be there with me because we work in a very similar way, maybe because we both were child actors.”
During the ten-part series former child star Elle bed-hops between her husband and lover Leo Voronsky, played by Sebastian de Souza (Image: Getty Images for Chopard)
The show is created by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter for The Favorite, Tony McNamara.
Elle made her acting debut aged three as the younger version of her sister Dakota in I Am Sam.
She had a string of lead acting roles under her belt by the time she was eight.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
