“Alfie was very much, ‘Is this ok? How are we going to make this work?'” Whelan remembered. Before the show revealed these characters to be related, it depicted the two on horseback together and Theon performing a reach-around move on Yara. Whelan’s own history of sex scenes on “Game of Thrones” included a second season moment between her character, Yara, and Alfie Allen’s Theon Greyjoy. 'The Lord of the Rings': Everything You Need to Know About Amazon's Big Money Adaptation Martin Praises 'Dark, Visceral' 'House of the Dragon': 'Just the Way I Like My Fantasy'Ģ021 Emmy Predictions: Who Will Win at the Primetime Emmy Awards? Peter Dinklage Says Ending 'GOT' Was a 'Relief,' but 'Hardest Thing to Walk Away From' 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.”
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. “But between the actors there was always an instinct to check in with each other. They used to just say, ‘When we shout action, go for it!’ and it could be a sort of frenzied mess,” Whelan said about the early days of filming “Thrones” sex and nude scenes.
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Gemma Whelan made a name for herself around the world by playing Yara Greyjoy on 16 episodes of HBO’s blockbuster fantasy series “ Game of Thrones.” In a new interview with The Guardian, Whelan reflected on what it was like shooting the series and how sometimes filming sex scenes became a “frenzied mess.” Whelan started her “Thrones” run in the show’s second season, long before HBO committed to having intimacy coordinators on set for all sex scenes (that order didn’t come until October 2018).