The BBC One adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestseller made headlines for its steamy intimate scenes, but Mescal has revealed that they were “quite unsexy” to film.
He joins Oscar-winning actor Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard and Jessie Buckley in the cast.
“On the Friday of the first week, me and Daisy had to do a day of sex scenes and we were covered in this gel called Egyptian Magic,” he told The Mirror.
Mescal added: “Filming those scenes is probably the least sexy thing you’ll ever do in your life, so it is amazing that they turned out so brilliantly, because at the time, they are quite unsexy.”