Gillian Anderson says that hit Netflix show Sex Education exposed her to some sexual activities she had “never heard of before”. The award winning actress, 54, said despite not being shocked easily, there had been moments while watching the coming-of-age comedy series that had made her “gasp”.
It comes after Anderson announced her latest project, a curated book about female sexual fantasies – and called on women to send her their own stories. The stories will appear in the book Women’s Sexual Fantasies – based on female liberation author Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden – which the actress read to prepare for her role in Sex Education.
The 1973 book was published during the so-called sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and became a cult hit. Anderson discussed the book, and others, during an interview on the Women’s Prize for Fiction podcast, which also touched on her role in the Netflix show.
