Conversations With Friends’ Alison Oliver Jokes About ‘Embarrassing’ Sex Scenes With Joe Alwyn: It’s About ‘Trusting the Person’

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Nothing uncomfortable here. Alison Oliver says “it was great” working with an intimacy coordinator to film sex scenes with Joe Alwyn for Hulu’s Conversations With Friends, which debuts on Sunday, May 15.5 Things to Know About Alison OliverNewcomer Oliver, 23, and Alwyn, 31, play Frances and Nick, respectively, in the series that comes from the same creative team that adapted Sally Rooney’s other bestselling novel, Normal People.“[Ita O’Brien] has a really brilliant system that she kind of goes through with you when you’re approaching those scenes,” Oliver exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the premiere. “She’ll kind of go through the text with you in-depth and it’ll always feel like those scenes are there as extensions of dialogue and that it’s there to kind of continue the storytelling rather than anything kind of gratuitous or just kind of thrown in.

She really puts you at ease and she kind of starts to talk about what shapes you want to make to tell the story.”While choreographing each intimate scene, O’Brien’s process helped the actors trust each other, which cut down on any awkwardness.“She does all the kind of embarrassing stuff by getting on the floor and trying different things out.

And then you just kind of copy her,” Oliver explained. “I think through that amount of rehearsal and kind of talking about it and trusting the person that you’re acting with and all the people around you, you can really come to those scenes and feel kind of secure and safe.

And that you’re able to kind of really think about the storytelling rather than anything else.”Everything to Know About ‘Conversations With Friends’Alwyn was “amazing” to work with, according to Oliver. “He’s such a generous actor and I think I learned so much