Bridgerton star explains why she 'went home and cried' after filming steamy sex scene

A star of the hit show Bridgerton has said that she 'went home and cried' after filming an intimate scene for the show.

Ruth Gemmell, who plays Violet Bridgerton in the hit show, described how she had only found out that she would be shooting the sex scene with her co-star Daniel Francis when she was in a costume fitting.

Speaking to Ciné-Télé-Revue in an interview, she recalled that she was 'shocked' when she found out and that she had 'no idea' that she would be filming the scene before that moment.

She told the outlet: "I was a little bit shocked. I was in a costume fitting, and I realized that I was being fitted for something that I had no idea was going to happen."

Bridgerton co-stars Ruth Gemmell and Daniel Francis (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP via Getty Images)

Gemmell, 58, went on to say that after the scene she 'went home and cried' from the shock.

However, after the initial impact of it wore off she said that felt okay with how the scene had been handled by the Netflix show's production.

She said: "Thankfully, we tackled this one in a slightly different way to the kids of the show, because I don't think anyone would want to watch that really."

Gemmell went on to add that the show used 'a lot of low lighting' in the scene.

When she reflected on the scene, Gemmell felt that it was important to show Violet Bridgerton also experiencing some intimacy after her husband Edmund died several years before.

"We don't die after a certain age," she said. "So, it's quite nice to kind of represent that."

The actor also thought about the different way that someone who has lived longer and had more experience might approach love.

Gemmell opened up about how the scene had affected her (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

She said: "It's very lovely to see young love and love for the first time, but it's also very important and lovely to see somebody who has loved and lost and grieved and comes with a myriad of baggage, because everyone can identify with that, and I think that's important to show."

It seems that this is unlikely to be the last we'll see of Violet Bridgerton's story either.

Executive producer Shonda Williams has previously spoken about the possibility of a spin-off which in centered on Violet on Craig Melvin's Glass Half Full podcast.

“That's an area that we're excited about and know that that could be really rich and really mined well," she said.

“I’ve always said that I thought if we were going to do something like that, Violet would be a great person to tell the story about - the Bridgerton mom. So, yeah, that's a possibility.”