The star stunned The Gentlemen viewers earlier this year when they realised she was the same actor who played Effy in the hit E4 show that first aired back in 2007.
Skins gave Scodelario her big break when she was just 14, playing the sister of Nicholas Hoult’s Tony Stonem.
When she’d been on the show for three years, she ended up getting her own spin-off TV show Skins: Fire.
And when it came to the final bits of it all, the 32-year-old explained that because both she and her character were older, the original script was pretty heavy on the sex scenes – now that’s saying something considering what Skins was already like.
She pushed back on the script (Joe Maher/Getty Images)
But Scodelario spoke to the producers and pushed back because she simply didn’t see a ‘need’ for it.
“I felt much more confident in saying what I felt during that series,” The Maze Runner actor told The Guardian.
“When the first draft came through, there were a lot of sex scenes in it, and I could tell it was because I turned 18, and that meant that they could show more. And I went back and said: ‘No, there’s no need to do that’.”
While she explained ‘nothing too awful’ happened when she was working on Skins, Scodelario certainly welcomes the safeguarding and intimacy co-ordinators that are now standard practice in the industry.
She previously spoke to NME about the parallels that have been drawn between the old British show and American series Euphoria.
“I was thinking, ‘God these actors are so brave’ and that this must be quite scary for them,” the star said.
She started playing Effy at 14 (E4)
“I then had this realisation that I did all that at 14 without anybody taking care of us.”
While saying ‘the safeguarding wasn’t there’ on the set of Skins, she ‘hopes the actors get taken care of’ on the set of Euphoria.
And with it still being a big cultural moment to this day, you’d be surprised that there was talk at the time of Skins being a flop.
“Even the crew were saying they didn’t think it would get picked up,” she told The Guardian.
“I remember one of the electricians on set going: ‘I’ve worked on really expensive period dramas that didn’t get a second season – there’s no f**king way this will’.
“And then, kind of overnight, it happened.”
Well, it certainly did.
Featured Image Credit: Joe Maher/Getty Images/E4
Topics: TV, TV and Film
Jess Battison
Industry star criticises BBC for ‘editing out’ erect penis from show branded ‘Skins for adults’
The star has hit out at the BBC
A star of the show Industry, which has been branded ‘Skins for adults’, has lashed out at the BBC after the national broadcaster was accused of having ‘edited out’ an erect penis from the show.
Marisa Abela, one of the stars of the show, spoke out after the BBC made the decision to censor the series.
Whilst it is unsurprising that the BBC have made this decision when given the context of ‘erect penis on terrestrial TV’, it is a slight surprise in the context of the show.
When people hear ‘Skins for adults’ the natural question to ask is how that is possible when Skins was technically for adults.
Despite this, the comparison is valid, as Industry often takes things so, so much further.
Skins glorifies drugs and sex, which is not a criticism, but a reality of the age and maturity of the characters portrayed.
Industry, meanwhile, focuses on a group of young recent university graduates being thrown into the extravagant world of corporate banking, and how it affects them all.
Industry has been called ‘Skins for adults’ (HBO)
What this means in real terms though is rampant drug use, sex in near every episode, and debauchery to crazy levels, with one character even forced to ejaculate on a mirror then eat it in the very first season.
Add to that the copious amounts of nudity throughout, and a penis stood to attention doesn’t feel like a massive leap from everything else the show said.
Abela, who went on to star in Back to Black off the back of her breakout role on the show, said in an interview with The Times: “What are they going to do, put something else over the top of it?
“Are they going to blur it out? It is quite shocking, to be fair. But that’s not the point.”
The scene in question shows her character catching her father having sex with a pregnant woman on a yacht.
The compromising situation Marisa’s character Yasmin finds her father in, erect penis and all (HBO)
She went on to say that the inclusion was not gratuitous due to how it demonstrates the ‘dysfunctional’ relationship the pair have.
The BBC’s version does not blur it, but instead used a different shot from the production.
Whilst the scene featured an erect penis in the version broadcast on HBO, the BBC’s version was never intended to have this.
That was due to differing broadcast standards in the UK.
Regarding the nudity in the show involving her character Yasmin, Abela said: “The nudity aspect is not something that I minded in season one or two – it was like: ‘If it’s in my contract, I’ll do it.’
“It was part of Yasmin and part of the fact that she was so comfortable with herself and she’s very free. And it didn’t have a lot of emotional weight for me.
Marisa Abela (Jamie McCarthy via Getty Images)
“It’s not like anyone would have made me do something that I didn’t want to do, but I didn’t necessarily want to question the directors.”
She went on to say: “I think now I’m more aware of the implications of doing it over and over again.
“I’m more aware that I have the ability to say, ‘Do you mind staying on my back rather than coming round the front?’ You get the idea from my back that I’m not wearing anything.”
Industry seasons 1-3 are available on BBC iPlayer now.
The BBC did not wish to comment when contacted.
Featured Image Credit: Jamie McCarthy via Getty Images / HBO
Topics: BBC, TV, TV and Film
Michael Slavin
Doctor reveals scientifically proven ways to have more sex in your relationship
Dr Rena Malik referenced a study that found scientifically proven ways to improve your time in the sheets with your partner
A doctor has scientifically explained how you can keep things spicy in the bedroom.
Dr Rena Malik is an American Urologist and Pelvic Surgeon but is well known for her content on social media, particularly on YouTube, where she posts videos about general health, wellbeing and sex to 2.1 million subscribers.
In a video uploaded earlier this year, she revealed some scientifically proven ways to improve sex with your partner, highlighting the tried and tested methods that those in relationships have done to maintain happiness between the sheets.
There are ways that couples can scientifically improve their time together in the bedroom (Getty Stock Image)
To back her points up, Dr Malik referenced a 2006 study that surveyed 40,000 people which was advertised on national television as a survey about sex and relationships.
It focused on people who had been together for three years or more, asking about their happiness, what they did to maintain passion for the other person and what worked.
One of the main things highlighted was that happy couples are far more likely to engage in variety when it comes to intimacy.
In the video, the doctor noted that sex was enjoyed more by both partners if both orgasm as she summed up, ‘orgasm more and you’re both going to be happier and you’re both going to be more satisfied in your relationship’.
There are a large number of things that couples can try to improve in the bedroom (YouTube/RenaMalikMD)
People who were generally happy in their long-term relationships were more open to trying a variety of things, according to the study.
Dr Malik explained: “The different types of variety included things like a mini-massage or a back rub, wearing sexy lingerie or underwear, taking a shower or bath together, having a date night which where they made sure they had sex, trying a new sexual position, going on a romantic getaway, using a vibrator or sex toy together.”
She went on to mention other things that were more adventurous, such as ‘anal stimulation’, ‘viewing pornography together’, fantasies in bed, and trying to get sexual in public places, though she added on this point: “[I] generally don’t recommend that because that’s technically illegal.”
Dr Malik said those who also tried light S&M, Viagra, filmed their sessions, and invited other people into bed were also found to be far happier, based on the study.
“So basically, if you tried something that included sexual variety, it made it more likely for you to be satisfied,” the health expert added.
Dr Malik revealed the things that correlated most with those who were happiest in the long term.
Sexual activities that correlated most with satisfied couples
- People who wore sexy lingerie
- Those who took a bath together
- Couples that acted out fantasies
- People who had a romantic getaway
- Giving or receiving a massage
- Trying anal sex
- Using date night as a time to be intimate
- Using a sex toy together
Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock Image/Rena Malik, M.D./YouTube
Topics: Sex and Relationships, Health, Community
Joshua Nair
Nicole Kidman revealed she felt ‘deeply humiliated’ during intense sex scenes in Big Little Lies
Nicole Kidman portrayed a woman in an abusive relationship and said she would feel the same emotions as her character
A few years back Nicole Kidman starred in the critically acclaimed HBO series Big Little Lies, and when the show released she explained that while filming she at times ‘felt very exposed’ and ‘deeply humiliated’.
Kidman has just recently been in Netflix show The Perfect Couple, while she’s got movie Babygirl in the pipeline and said that at times she felt ‘ragged’ filming it.
She did also confirm that a third season of Big Little Lies is on the way so she’s been keeping very busy, but winding the clock back to 2017 when the first season released she was very candid about the way some of the show’s most challenging scenes made her feel.
The subject matter of the show is not for the faint of heart as Kidman plays Celeste Wright, a woman in an abusive relationship with husband Perry (Alexander Skarsgård), in a performance which won her an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
She spoke out about how shooting some of the sex scenes in Big Little Lies made her feel ‘very exposed’ and she would be ‘ashamed’ when she got home after filming.
Nicole Kidman said she felt ‘very exposed’ while filming some scenes in Big Little Lies (HBO)
Speaking to W magazine, Kidman praised director Jean-Marc Vallée and the response Big Little Lies got from viewers, but opened up about how shooting some of the scenes made her feel.
She said: “I felt very exposed and vulnerable and deeply humiliated at times.
“I mean, I remember lying on the floor in the bathroom at the very end when we were doing the scenes in episode seven, and I was lying on the floor and I just wouldn’t get up in-between takes.
“I was just lying there, sort of broken and crying, and I remember at one point Jean-Marc coming over and just sort of placing a towel over me because I was just lying there in half-torn underwear and just basically on the ground with nothing on and I was just, like [gasps].”
For those who let Big Little Lies pass them by, episode seven was the season finale with a lot of dramatic goings on.
Kidman won an Emmy and Golden Globe for her part in Big Little Lies, and viewers contacted her to say the show helped them understand abusive relationships (Mike Marsland/Getty Images for Omega)
However, Kidman went on to add that she would think of women who’d suffered through abusive relationships and the authenticity of it would help her carry on.
The actor continued: “But at times I would have flashes of images of women that have gone through this and I’m like, ‘This is authentic, this is the truth and this is what I have to do, and it would just come through like that’.
“But it was beautifully written, I have to say, and Jean-Marc is an exquisite director because he was able to modulate it and allow it to be and to grow and see and then sort of paste it together, you know.”
She said she was ‘here to tell the story and be true to the art’ as well as ‘come as a pure vessel to the work’.
Kidman also said that in response to the show she’d ‘received the most amazing e-mails from people ‘saying I now understand why women stay or why people stay with an abuser’, adding that ‘if that changes one person’s life, that’s amazing for me’.
If you are experiencing domestic violence, please know that you are not alone. You can talk in confidence to the national domestic violence helpline Refuge on 0808 2000 247, available 24/7, or via live chat, available 10am-10pm, Monday to Friday.
Featured Image Credit: Mike Marsland/Getty Images for Omega/HBO
Topics: TV and Film, HBO, Nicole Kidman, Celebrity
Joe Harker
Director of erotic film on Netflix reveals how he felt watching his girlfriend film unsimulated oral sex scenes
We spoke to the director behind the banned film, which just landed on Netflix
The director of controversial banned erotic film Gandu has opened up about the experience of watching his girlfriend, an actor in the movie, carry out unsimulated sexual acts on camera.
Qaushiq Mukherjee, known as Q, wrote and directed the highly controversial movie.
Gandu is an Indian film focused on a young rapper who steals from his mother’s lover in order to buy drugs, and continue his dream of becoming a successful musician.
There are several sex scenes in Gandu (Netflix)
The film was banned in several countries due to the unsimulated sexual acts shown, and was recently added to Netflix in the UK.
This includes an unsimulated blowjob that was given to Anubrata Basu, who played Gandu, by Rituparna Sen, Q’s girlfriend at the time.
LADbible spoke to Q and asked about not only how they filmed these scenes, but what it was like directing his girlfriend during them.
When asked about how they filmed the scenes, he said he had no control over how the actors would interact, leaving it entirely up to them.
Q stated that in effect, his only job was to film what happened.
He said: “So many times I would set something up. We didn’t have any other agenda but to push the story forward.
Gandu director Q (Matt Winklemayer via Getty Images)
“The actors would decide on what to do and how to do it, and I would decide how to film it. I wouldn’t even change them around.”
“Everything was unsimulated.
“I don’t have much control over making of the frame or what is happening inside the frame.”
When asked about how he felt watching his girlfriend film the scene where she gave unsimulated oral sex to another actor, Q said: “We were all very nervous on that day, because this was that day that we would shoot the sex scene.
“Apart from that, I don’t think there was any concern, because we’ve been practicing that for the last six months to come there.”
The film has unsimulated sex scenes (Netflix)
He went on to state there were nerves surrounding the scene due to the fact they felt if anyone was to see it, this would be why.
He admitted he used the sex scenes in the film as ‘Trojan horse’ to get people to watch the movie, saying: “Everyone was like ‘oh s**t, there’s a blowjob scene’. So even if you’re fast forwarding it, watching it at 3x and just skipping through it, you would end up watching at least 15 minutes of the film before you can find the f**king scene”
Despite this though, he also admitted that he never thought anyone would even see the movie.
The abstract film has some graphic scenes, and it took years for it to be approved to be shown in India (Netflix)
He said: “We didn’t think this film would go anywhere. We thought that we were making a neighborhood film, which will be watched by our friends.
“Because I was nobody, and there was no production house involved. There was nothing involved which makes films go outside of their little circles”
The film went on to screen at the Berlin and London Film Festival, and received a positive review from Variety.
Gandu is available to watch on Netflix now.
