Uh, when we signed up for this job we kind of knew we’d be putting our pride behind us. The rest was all him: fluttering cheek muscles, rolling eyeballs… Butterfield, who has acted since he was seven years old, but never like this, aced his big moment, I tell him. He was strapped to a rising gurney, to simulate floating, blissed-out pleasure. On set that day Butterfield was fitted, under his trousers, with a prosthetic erection. I knew I’d gotten off pretty lightly compared with the others in the cast.” (His costars included British newcomers such as Ncuti Gatwa and Emma Mackey, as well as veterans Gillian Anderson and James Purefoy.) “They’d all done their share of revealing sexual things. “I did my big wanking scene towards the end of the shoot,” Butterfield recalls, “so I’d kind of warmed up to it. They’d all done their share of revealing sexual things. It was thoughtful, great fun – and the only show I can think of that, after eight hours of patient dramatic build-up, culminated in a closeup of a young man pleasuring himself. Over eight episodes, Sex Education explored an array of important topics, including (deep breath) performance anxiety, impotence, consent, possessiveness, wet dreams, premarital sex, virginity loss, fear of masturbation, fear of penetration, mid-sex panic attacks, having a too-large penis, revenge porn, pregnancy, abortion, social-media shaming, and whether to have sex with the lights on or off. It also, as the title ironically promised, educated. But I didn’t expect it to connect so instantly, so overwhelmingly, with so many people.” I guess I hoped the show would be talked about a bit. “When I first signed up, I knew it would be interesting, risky, that the scripts were treading new ground. He plays Sex Education’s central character, a preternaturally wise teenage boy called Otis, who takes it upon himself to advise his sixth-form peers on the intricacies of sexual contact and sexual politics. “I think it did a great job of normalising young people’s fears, and quirks, and hang-ups around sex,” Butterfield says. Part hyperactive teen comedy and part public health broadcast, Sex Education, created by British/Australian screenwriter Laurie Nunn, turned out to be that rare cultural thing: a show that filled a hole we didn’t know was there. That was a fun day on set.” With a second series of the hit Netflix show due to debut online soon, the 21-year-old Londoner has come to a diner in King’s Cross to eat an oozing burger and talk with some pride about a show that first set the internet humming back in January 2019. Butterfield is recalling one of the stranger milestones of his acting career, “my first, big, on-camera wank. In his new year at Mjölnir Academy, Julian discovers a new power, Landon and Christian become closer in a way neither expects, and Jett explores his own skills with his new partner in crime.Ah, yes, says Asa Butterfield, the young star of the explicit and brilliant comedy of sex manners, Sex Education. Language: English Words: 21,686 Chapters: 4/18 Comments: 2 Kudos: 10 Bookmarks: 2 Hits: 1,697 Join some of your favorite characters as they embark on the next stage in their magical lives. Graphic Depictions Of Violence, UnderageĪ new adventure begins with the handfasting of two of our newly graduated mages from Mjölnir, but as they and their friends celebrate, something dark lurks in the shadows.Teenagers All over the world are dealing with different kinds of hardships, these are their stories, these are the struggles of life! Language: English Words: 220,403 Chapters: 33/? Comments: 2 Kudos: 17 Bookmarks: 3 Hits: 5,027 ![]()
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