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Josh O'Connor made a splash — and nabbed a BAFTA nomination for his work — in God's Own Country, a rural gay love story that was one of England's most acclaimed films of 2017. 

He opens up to Gay Times (February 2018) about the role and about those sex scenes ...

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On preparing to play his character:

 

I’d talk in accent and we’d discuss Johnny from the day he was born. We’d go through where he was born, what was the name of his first friend, his first sexual experience, his first sexual experience with a man, and we went through everything in such detail so we had a memory bank for him.

 

 

On his on-screen chemistry with co-star Alec Secareanu:

 

When you’ve got two actors that are engaged and willing to listen and are kind to each other and support each other, you can have so much fun and be wild and take risks and so I never felt - and I don’t think Alec ever felt - unsafe. We had to feel vulnerable because there would be moments where I’d do something a bit mental and we’d have to just run with it — and likewise for Alec. We’d do what we thought was right and Francis would guide us that way.

 

 

On filming the more intimate scenes:

 

Amazing to think about how safe it felt. One scene, me and Alec had to meet before we shot, so we choreographed it — it was so detailed. There was a twenty-point plan so it was like, “Jonny grabs his crotch, grabs Ghoergie’s shoulder, pushes him down, they roll.” It’s like every single detail was planned.

 

 

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