There's sex in Sex Education!? Who'da thunk? Based on the title alone, the cast of the hit Netflix show knew they'd be heading into territory that was simply not safe for work. Well, not safe for any other kind of work.

While many of the cast members of Sex Education were doing some cool projects before the show, Emma Mackey (Maeve Wiley) was basically a newbie. In fact, she had only made a TV short before being cast in one of the most important (and most fashionable) roles on the show. Even though many new actors would immediately shy away from the extreme intimacy her scenes demanded, Emma took it on like a pro. Here's what she's said about filming Sex Education's intimate scenes.

Emma Mackey Pre-Planned Every Single Movement For Her Intimate Scenes On Sex Education

During a 2019 interview about Sex Education by Vulture, Emma Mackey was asked about which scenes in Sex Education were the hardest to film. Her answer? ...the hospital scene in the third episode of the first season. And that's only because she has a fear of illness. But even that wasn't all that intimidating for her despite the fact that she was totally green at the time.

"To be honest with you, there weren’t any scenes I was actually scared to do," Emma Mackey said to Vulture answering the obvious follow-up question about what it's like to film the NSFW scenes. "It was ultimately quite fun. When you’re doing intimacy scenes, it’s a closed set and you’ve only got the key people there, so that takes the pressure off because you haven’t got like 80 people looking at you having sex. But it was all so well-handled — we had an intimacy workshop way before filming, where we spoke about our worries and any questions we might have."

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Similar to how Sydney Sweeney claimed she works with an intimacy coordinator on the set of HBO's Euphoria, Emma claimed that every NSFW scene on Sex Education is pre-planned. But in the case of Sex Education, the entire cast had to sit down and take part in a workshop about the logistics of shooting such a scene respectfully.

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"We all sat in a circle for three hours talking about all our experiences or lack thereof, and the nerves evaporated pretty much immediately. There was an intimacy coordinator, and the whole writing team and the production team and the director, and we just talked it all out. It’s funny because people just expect actors to know how to have sex onscreen. But at the workshop, they compared it to doing stunts, and how it would be completely ridiculous to expect actors to just jump off a building without rehearsing. It’s exactly the same with sex scenes. It’s all really coordinated and choreographed," Emma said.

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Emma continued by saying that she and Kedar Williams-Stirling, who played Jackson, had every movement planned out and timed perfectly.

"We quite literally timed everything before we started filming. Like, we’re going to kiss for three seconds, and then I’m going to push you on the bed, then you’re going to say your line. We’d practice it, practice the movements, until it’s as natural as possible. So everything you see onscreen, we’re in our heads counting. It’s like a dance; it’s quite funny."

What Emma Mackey And Her Family Learned About Sex In Sex Education

It's refreshing to hear an actor claim that they learned something new about sex from a TV show. After all, so many shows delve into the complexities of the incredibly human act. But given the premise of Sex Education, learning something new from the show is kind of a given...

"What it taught me most was relief: All these weird times that you have when you’re a teenager, everyone has them. I never spoke about masturbation at school; it just wasn’t a thing for some reason. Girls and pleasure, it’s really taboo. I thought I was always really weird, like, No one else is doing this. Maybe I’m really bad. Maybe something’s wrong with me," Emma explained. "I think a lot of people feel that way about the show, from what I’ve heard. My grandparents actually said they wished they had a show like this 50 years ago. My grandma literally said that her sex education at a girls’ grammar school in the ’40s and ’50s was rabbits reproducing. Can you imagine? We’ve come a long way since pictures of reproducing rabbits."

While the future of Emma Mackey's involvement in Sex Education remains undetermined, at least she took away something important from working on the show.

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