It’s no surprise to hear from different actors that doing sex scenes comes with a healthy dose of awkwardness. Bridgerton’s Yerin Ha didn’t seem to love having to disrobe first thing in the morning for a full day of fake whoopee, and it sounds like Game of Thrones was a “frenzied mess” for Gemma Whelan without intimacy directors. Of all the behind-the-scenes stories I’ve heard, though, I wasn’t ready for Emilia Clarke talking about breaking a rib while filming sex scenes for Ponies.
New to the 2026 TV schedule, Ponies stars Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, who go undercover after their CIA operative husbands die under mysterious circumstances. For Clarke’s character Bea, that apparently involved getting close to a few guys, because while the actress laughed as she admitted she “really made out a bunch,” she also told The Wrap:
