Anne Lister also happened to love women, and enjoyed a healthy sex life, so the Doctor Foster actor says the show's creator - award-winning writer Sally Wainwright - hired an intimacy co-ordinator so that she could depict the sex scenes convincingly and with sensitivity.

"I was quite nervous about the sex scenes we had to do, because I thought they should be approached as sensitively as they could be, " Suranne told The Mirror. One of the great things she brought was an articulacy – we could talk about the scenes.

"She just started talking about body parts and positions in a matter of fact way, which just liberated us all. As well as helping us sculpt the sex scenes, the positions, she’s also there to provide support to the artists."

Intimacy coach Ita O'Brien advises sex scenes are meticulously planned in advance, explaining, "Fight scenes in films are carefully ­choreographed and rehearsed. Sex scenes should be the same."

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Wainwright and Jones both wanted to ensure that Anne’s queerness was depicted realistically and fairly, so Wainwright hired a lesbian adviser and an intimacy adviser to coordinate the sex scenes. Jones appreciated having the experts available to her. “I think, in the current climate, every show should have [an intimacy adviser]," Jones says. "It just makes everyone safe and comfortable. We had someone that we could talk to if there were any questions.”

“I wanted to make a point of not being gratuitous,” Wainwright says of the sex scenes. “But I wanted to combine that with making a big character. Anne Lister was a great lover, and her sex was very evolved. I think we shot the scenes in a way that’s very beautiful, very apt.”

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The actress said she it was "liberating" to work with Ita O'Brien.

“I was quite nervous about the sex scenes we had to do, because I thought they should be approached as sensitively as they could be,” she told the Daily Mirror.

“One of the great things she brought was an articulacy – we could talk about the scenes.

“She just started talking about body parts and positions in a matter of fact way, which just liberated us all.

“As well as helping us sculpt the sex scenes, the positions, she’s also there to provide support to the artists.”
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‘We had intimacy directors just so we could tell the story in a very sympathetic and sensitive way.

‘We wanted to explore the way she had sexual affairs because it’s all in there in the diaries. It’s very personal.

‘We wanted someone who was able to give us a language so no one felt embarrassed and we could just talk about every aspect.’
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Suranne Jones has revealed a sex guru helped her overcome her nerves at filming lesbian romps for her new drama, Gentleman Jack.
The Doctor Foster actress, 40, said show writer Sally Wainwright hired ­intimacy co-ordinator Ita O’Brien to give advice on how to behave convincingly.
She said: “I was quite nervous about the sex scenes we had to do, because I thought they should be approached as sensitively as they could be.
“One of the great things she brought was an articulacy – we could talk about the scenes.
"She just started talking about body parts and positions in a matter of fact way, which just liberated us all.
“As well as helping us sculpt the sex scenes, the positions, she’s also there to provide support to the artists.”
O’Brien advises that sex scenes are carefully worked out in advance, saying: “Fight scenes in films are carefully ­choreographed and rehearsed. Sex scenes should be the same.”

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How do sex scenes work?

Intimacy coordinator Ita O'Brien says before she came along a director would often send the actors off on their own to figure out their own boundaries.

Now, Ita has created a set of guidelines that she says makes the sex scenes filmed today, even steamier and more realistic.

Today, we learn how to choreograph a sex scene so that every angle, every touch and every emotion is as beautifully rehearsed as any battle.
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The role of the intimacy coordinator has become more important in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations and the broader #MeToo movement. Ita O'Brien works on the set of a short film, Keep Breathing, breaking down the choreography of a sex scene to ensure the wellbeing of the actors and create a clear language and process.