‘We Were Told To Go For It’ Game Of Thrones’ Star Reveals Sex Scenes Were Not Rehearsed

Gemma Whelan, star of HBO’s famous TV series “Game of Thrones,” has disclosed how the show’s sex scenes were shot.

Filming sex scenes, according to Wheland, was a “frenzied mess.”

Whelan first appeared in the second season of Game of Thrones, as the formidable warrior Yara Greyjoy. Until the end of the series in 2019, the actor continues to play a pivotal role.

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Speaking with The Guardian about her new show “The Tower,” Whelan mentioned the sex scenes in “Game of Thrones,” saying they were not really choreographed.

“They used to just say, ‘When we shout action, go for it!’ and it could be a sort of frenzied mess,” Whelan said. “But between the actors, there was always an instinct to check in with each other.”

She continued: “There was a scene in a brothel with a woman and she was so exposed that we talked together about where the camera would be and what she was happy with. A director might say, ‘Bit of boob biting, then slap her bum and go!’ But I’d always talk it through with the other actor.”

One of Whelan’s significant sex scenes in “Game of Thrones” was in season two, episode two, when her character was seduced by her own brother, Theon Lovejoy (Alfie Allen), who did not recognize his sister.

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Whelan previously said on “The Graham Norton Show” that she auditioned for the show using that scene but originally Yara was seducing her brother.

She told The Guardian that intimacy directors — professionals who help choreograph intimate scenes between actors — would have been helpful during that scene.

“Alfie was very much: ‘Is this OK? How are we going to make this work?’ With intimacy directors, it’s choreography — you move there, I move there, and permission and consent is given before you start,” she said. “It is a step in the right direction.”