You Netflix’s Lukas Gage Talks Sex Scenes

In the event you’ve caught a number of the new season of the Netflix present You, there’s an opportunity {that a} sure sexual scene may need stood out — particularly when Adam Pratt, performed by Lukas Gage, is depicted being pissed on by one among his staff.

It isn’t the primary time Lukas has been open to a intercourse scene — he beforehand went viral for an ass-eating second within the White Lotus (which, for what it is price, was the suggestion of Lukas and his co-star Murray Bartlett).

Chatting with the Hollywood Reporter about You, Lukas started, “I didn’t know that I used to be going to get peed on in You once I took the half.”

“I’m not, like, asking my brokers to ship me solely roles the place I’m half bare,” he joked. “I’ll say it was my thought to put on the googles.”

“With that scene, and in The White Lotus, I wasn’t doing it to be attractive, however for comedic worth. I didn’t suppose it was going to be scorching for individuals. However I did need to go so far as doable. It will probably’t be a half rim job, or a half golden bathe — though we did use a water machine with yellow meals coloring.”

When requested if he has any “shyness,” Lukas continued, “I assume I’m just a little extra European in my ideas on nudity proper now. I’m not begging to take my garments off, however I’m snug with it. I need to maintain a way of truthfulness, too: If there’s a scene the place I’m having intercourse with my boss, it’s gonna be fairly fucking bizarre if I’ve garments on. These scenes are so mechanical of their filming, in any case. There’s nothing attractive a few director telling you you’re thrusting bizarre.”

For what it is price, You does use an intimacy coordinator on set. “It is essential to have an intimacy coordinator on a present like ours, most likely on nearly each present,” showrunner Sera Gamble advised BuzzFeed in a current interview. “The factor that is nice concerning the intimacy coordinator is that they go and have a dialog with the actor versus me, their boss, calling them and saying, ‘Are you okay to take your shirt off?’ The concept is definitely to take that strain off of the performer so that they are speaking to any individual who’s going to behave as their advocate.”