“There was one day where we did four sex scenes in one day,” he said.
“I was going from room to room meeting strangers and saying, ‘Hi, I am Nick, nice to meet you. OK, this is the position we’re going to be in’.”
He added: “It’s an incredibly empowering feeling. We had such a wonderful intimacy coordinator, and for the day, players who came in for these singular scenes, I hope I made them feel comfortable.
“But I’m so proud of all that work that we did together.”
Galitzine said that recreating the promiscuity of Villiers, who bedded both men and women, helped him “vicariously live through this man’s sense of power”.
Villiers was Duke of Buckingham, the king’s favourite, and was widely considered to be his lover. In one letter to Villiers, James I calls the courtier his “wife”.
Villiers was assassinated early in the reign of James’s son Charles I.
An overview of the series shows that Galitzine appears in a sex scene with Tony Curran, who plays King James, in the second episode.
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