A star of the hit show Bridgerton has said that she ‘went home and cried’ after filming an intimate scene for the show.Anyone who’s watched the popular period drama will know that sex scenes are absolutely not a rarity, with the majority of the episodes from its four seasons featuring some pretty hot and heavy moments.And while it’s clear that the actors will most likely know what they’ve signed up for, it appears one of the show’s leading ladies didn’t.Ruth Gemmell, who plays Lady Violet Bridgerton, also known as the Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton, in the hit show, described how she had only found out that she would be shooting a sex scene with her co-star Daniel Francis when she was in a costume fitting.

Season four of Bridgerton, which dropped last month, sees the slow-burning relationship between a widowed Violet and Lord Marcus Anderson – the brother of Lady Danbury – finally reach its climax, which (as we all know) means that some pretty steamy scenes were in the cards for the pair.Speaking to Ciné-Télé-Revue in a February interview, she recalled that she was ‘shocked’ when she found out that she was set to film some intimate scenes, and that she had ‘no idea’ that she would be filming them before that moment.She told the outlet: “I was a little bit shocked. I was in a costume fitting, and I realized that I was being fitted for something that I had no idea was going to happen.”Gemmell, 58, went on to say that after the scene she ‘went home and cried’ from the shock.However, after the initial impact of it wore off she said that felt okay with how the scene had been handled by the Netflx show’s production.