Charlie Murphy Talks Playing Anna in 'Obsession,' Why She Kept a Distance from Richard Armitage, & More
15.04.2023 - 22:55
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Obsession is the new obsession of many Netflix fans and the show’s star Charlie Murphy is opening up about her role as Anna.
The 34-year-old Irish actress is best known for her work in the BBC series Happy Valley and has also been seen in Peaky Blinders and the new Halo series.
Charlie chatted with The Independent and talked about meeting her co-star and intimate scene partner Richard Armitage for the first time at the chemistry read.
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“He fed me a few olives and then we shook hands and said goodbye,” she said. Charlie said she and Richard kept a distance from each other at first to emulate the relationship their characters were having.
Then they spent a week together filming those intimate moments.
“It was a nice parallel because no one else had witnessed it except this very close crew, so after that we had these loaded looks in our public scenes together: eating dinner, touching hair and all that. We’d experienced our world already,” she said.
Charlie also talked about working with an intimacy coordinator for those steamy scenes.
“So often you’re drawing from yourself, so that can feel icky,” she said. “It’s like saying, ‘OK, get up there and do a dance’. You’re like, ‘OK, well, now it’s Charlie doing the dance. And I’m feeling a bit self-conscious’. It’s the same with sex scenes. I’ve never really had any bad, bad experiences, thank God – and we all know that there’s been loads out there – but it has given me more bravery to know that I have an armour on in some way, even if I’m fully nude. That people are watching, not me going, ‘Oh, this is me, I’m drawing from my own very personal sexual experience’.”
Here’s everything that Richard had to say about going full frontal.