Bridgerton's Simone Ashley watched "sensual" snail mating clips to prepare for sex scenes
An intimacy workshop on Sex Education gave Ashley some unique inspiration

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Inspiration can come from the most unexpected of places. In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times’ The Envelope podcast, Simone Ashley explains that her time on Sex Education helped prepare her for the period piece sexy times on Bridgerton, and cited an unlikely source as a model for eroticism.
“In Sex Education, we had like a sex intimacy workshop where we completely broke the ice and you know, anything that was said, it was the most embarrassing or the most vulnerable, but it was a safe, intimate space. And we explored the movement of different animals to kind of portray different paces or different sexualities or how sensual something could be,” Ashley says on the podcast.