Richard Armitage has stated categorically that he would not be watching his jaw-dropping sex scenes back, despite the fact that they may be making a lot of others hot under the collar.
Richard, 51, plays William Farrow, a physician who has an affair with his son’s fiancée Anna (Charlie Murphy), in the new Netflix drama series.
He quickly develops an obsession, which results in some sexual encounters when he beats a pillow that his object of want had been lying on.
The actor has now admitted that he has opted not to rewatch any of the four episodes because he does not want to see himself in a nude state.
‘I’ve never seen my naked butt on camera and I don’t want to see it,’ he said, as reported by the Daily Mail.
He added: ‘I’m in denial. I just listen to what everyone else has to say.’
He previously admitted that the now-famous pillow scene had been somewhat improvised.
‘It was really unexpected because it was written as quite a different scene,’ he said.
‘There was a tissue with her imprint of her lipstick on which we didn’t feel necessarily worked.
‘I was really conscious that it shouldn’t be in any way comedic so we sort of left it quite open and it was a bit of an improvisation actually.’
He added: ‘Charlie had – without me knowing – sprayed her scent that she’d been wearing throughout the shoot into different parts of the bed and I just got the sense of it, and that’s where the scene just opened. But the recording it wasn’t too planned, actually.’
Damage, a 1991 book by Josephine Hart, was the inspiration for a 1992 movie starring Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche.
Richard, who was playing the evil character, admitted that when he initially read the screenplay, he wasn’t quite convinced he was up to the challenge.
‘I read the page-turning script and I suppose I thought I’d never really tackled something like this before, I don’t know if I’m capable of it – not just the physical exposure, but I mean the kind of emotional arc that the character goes through,’ he said.
But he added that he ‘loved a challenge’.
Netflix has made sure to offer adequate notice to anyone who might be intending to watch with their parents, in case you haven’t tuned in yet.
If you’ve decided to watch Obsession with your parents, there are the moments you’ll definitely want to excuse yourself, the UK and Ireland account said earlier this week.
Following that, the streaming platform published the precise time stamps for each episode’s sex scenes.
Obsession is streaming on Netflix.
Source My Celebrity Life.