Hannah Waddingham has told of her joy at being cast in her first period drama at the age of 48.
And the Ted Lasso star says she and her young co-star Solly McLeod didn’t need the help of the sex coach for their bedroom scenes.
The pair have been cast in an ITV adaptation of Henry Fielding’s 1749 novel Tom Jones, about a foundling boy who is adopted and grows up kind and handsome but cannot follow his heart in 18th century Britain because of his lowly birth.