Rivals star Aidan Turner has revealed he got into his racy scenes with his friend and co-star Victoria Smurfit.

The 41-year-old Irish actor stars in the Disney+ series as journalist Declan O’Hara with Victoria, 50, as his wife Maud.

Rivals has its share of steamy scenes, with husband and wife Declan and Victoria also baring all.

But speaking to Sunday timeAidan revealed that he and Victoria had no qualms about intimacy. “Victoria is such a legend, she’s a friend, I love her,” he said.

“We didn’t care, we got involved right away,” Aidan added, admitting that Victoria didn’t even know there would even be intimacy coordinators until the two arrived on the scene. plateau.

Rivals star Aidan Turner has revealed to the Sunday Times that he went for his racy scenes with his friend and co-star Victoria Smurfit.

Rivals has its share of steamy scenes, with husband and wife Declan and Maud (played by Aidan and Victoria) also baring all.

The Poldark star said: “It’s technical but you also have to have a sense of fun, it can’t just be hard work.

“It’s like a dance. There are 50 hairy men hanging around with cameras.

His admission comes after it was revealed that Rivals’ young writers rallied to have the groping scene removed from the eight-part Disney adaptation.

It was a scene in Rivals that made viewers’ blood run cold when Dame Jilly Cooper’s dark-haired lothario Rupert Campbell Black put his hand up 19-year-old Taggie’s skirt.

Dominic Treadwell-Collins, executive producer and writer of the series, said: “We talked a lot about the groping scene between Taggie and Rupert and whether we could show it on screen and, yes, we we sat in the writer’s room and pulled this out.

“Some of the younger writers said, ‘You can’t keep that aside because we would never want Rupert and Taggie to get together if he groped her.’

“And we said it has to change, it has to stay, it’s a commentary on the ’80s and those men.”

Rivals has since been widely praised for its faithful adaptation of Dame Jilly’s original storyline, without shying away from the more uncomfortable truths of the pre-MeToo 1980s.

The 41-year-old Irish actor stars in the Disney+ series as journalist Declan O’Hara with Victoria, 50, as his wife Maud.

But speaking to the Sunday Times, Aidan revealed he and Victoria had no qualms about their intimacy.

“Victoria is such a legend, she’s a friend, I love her,” he said

Alex Hassell, 44, plays Conservative MP Rupert Campbell Black, who takes a liking to Taggie, played by Bella Maclean, 26, the young daughter of fictional journalist Declan O’Hara, played by Poldark’s Aiden Turner.

Mr Treadwell-Collins, writer for EastEnders, told the Rivals podcast: “In the writers’ room we made sure we had young writers and older writers and a mix of sexualities and races and played with all of this.”

“We can look at it as a period piece and celebrate the ’80s, but also judge them a little bit.”

Commenting on the fumble, Hassell said Grazia: “The series highlights the journey since then and it is important for the arc of the character and his relationship with Taggie”,

“There’s no hiding the fact that Rupert is a real asshole – if you stop at episode two he’s just an asshole, but that’s where he needs to come back from.”

Fans have been begging Disney+ for a second season after the series ended on a cliffhanger with a character’s life on the line.

Rivals has since been widely praised for its faithful adaptation of Dame Jilly’s original storyline, not shying away from the more uncomfortable truths of the pre-MeToo 1980s.

A number of fans fell in love with the series and admitted to watching all eight episodes in a matter of days.

‘Oh my God. I guess there will be a Rivals season 2. They stayed so true to the book, I didn’t expect this ending!’ : ‘I just watched Rivals and oh my god, it’s so good. It’s not normally my type of thing, but I was hooked. I need a season 2’.

The series has been called a “bonkbuster” and Disney’s sexiest series, earning a whopping 93% on the Tomatometer.

The Mail’s Jane Fryer gave the eight-part series five stars and revealed that the series “kicks off with so much sex, swearing and nudity and ridiculously brilliant, tongue-in-cheek fun” that viewers won’t want to look away.