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Bridgerton: The Official Podcast

'Rain Soaks a Field in Autumn': Storytelling and Sex in ‘Bridgerton’

Bridgerton: The Official Podcast

Netflix & Shondaland Audio

Tv & Film, After Shows

4.3595 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we learn how the revolutionary role of intimacy coordinators enhance the way directors and actors tap into the most delicate parts of performance. Guest-host Jess Brownell and executive producer Shonda Rhimes break down some of Shondaland's perspectives on storytelling through sex and Bridgerton intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot reveals how she puts it to practice. Plus, directors Tom Verica and Julie Anne Robinson share which love scenes were the most challenging to choreograph. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.1

I mean, my favorite scene in the show is probably Violet talking to Daphne about sex.

0:09.6

It's so awkward. I love how awkward it is.

0:11.9

There are some things you ought to know.

0:13.5

If it is this difficult to discuss, how difficult must it be to perform?

0:17.0

It is not dearest. It is most natural, much in the way that rain soaks a field in autumn and in spring flowers grow.

0:25.5

Gab, is this what your sex talk was like? Is this how the Birds and the Beast talk went for you?

0:35.3

Welcome to Bridgeton, the official podcast, where we're going behind the scenes of Bridgeton.

0:40.8

I'm Gabrielle Collins.

0:42.4

Hello, Jess Brownell here.

0:44.5

On this episode, we're going to be talking about sex.

0:47.5

I imagine for a lot of people it's a shock when, oh, it's still going.

0:52.3

Oh, and it's still going five minutes later, or in the case of episode six, 20 minutes later.

0:59.8

Right.

1:00.4

You've posted the sorry not sorry I can't look away from this sex montage memes.

1:05.2

You've seen the what is a penis spoofs, spicy TikTok musicals, and some of us have even indulged in soaking the field in autumn a little early.

1:15.1

Gab, I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to go through a thunderstorm without thinking

1:19.8

about sex now.

1:20.6

Is that weird?

1:21.0

In this episode, we're going to look at how Bridgeton got all of our minds in the fanciest of gutters.

1:29.5

So, you know, I had that experience when I first read the books. I actually listened to them on

1:36.2

audio tape. And, you know, with romance novels, the first two-thirds of the book are pretty PG, especially with a Regency romance novel.

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