“The hardest were the ones on my own that were sexually driven, because there’s no one to vibe off,” she told Glamour UK. But surprisingly, Dynevor says these solo shots were actually some of her most challenging sex scenes to film. It’s her first lesson in human sexuality, and the pleasure it can bring. With some prompting from Simon, Daphne decides to explore her own body for the first time. In Bridgerton, it is very much Daphne’s perspective of Simon her looking at his body and her feeling that sexual drive towards him.” “Watching Bond and male-driven films, I’ve seen it so many times, where the man is laid back in bed with his hands behind his head just watching a naked woman and she’s a sexualized object. Part of what makes sex on the show unique is that “many of the shots are from the female gaze in Bridgerton,” Dynevor told Glamour UK. Despite all the nookie and nudity, though, Dynevor insists it’s never “gratuitous,” instead calling all those sex scenes “essential to Daphne’s journey as a woman and finding her sexuality.” One of the ways the Shonda Rhimes-produced Netflix show, based on the novels by Julia Quinn, flips the genre is with its abundance of explicit sex between Daphne Bridgerton ( Phoebe Dynevor) and her husband Simon, Duke of Hastings ( Regé-Jean Page).

The Jane Austen-inspired romance Bridgerton might seem like a conventional, even prudish, period piece-until you start actually watching it, that is.