The Witcher star Anya Chalotra has spoken out about her character Yennefer's sex scenes.

Speaking to Metro, she explained that although she had a body double, Flora, she very quickly realised she didn't want her to act out the sex scenes for her.

"I only used her for the first sex scene," she said, "because I realised very quickly in that first sex scene that actually, I didn't feel comfortable anyone else portraying Yennefer, because it's still acting isn't it?"

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After watching her body double in a sex scene between a pre-transformation Yennefer and Istredd (Royce Pierreson), she decided to perform any nudity going forward herself.

"I found [watching] that really hard, so if we were going to talk about the sex scenes then it would be how we were best going to film them, so that I was comfortable and you'd still get what we needed for the story to move on," she said.

"But with the audience, yeah, but the wide shot isn't me. The intimacy between Yennefer and Istrid is. Those close-up shots."

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All the scenes that Anya then went on to be involved in were "semi-nude", with the only fully-nude scene being the first one performed by the body double.

She added: "The only things that I had to get nude for were the scenes, the transformation scene and other scenes which actually really did develop the story and really need to, you know…"

Fantasy series The Witcher has only been on Netflix for four days, but it's made a rather big impression on audiences. Particularly those who may be missing Game of Thrones, arguably.

According to Digital Spy's poll, 93% of our readers liked season one and were excited about the next season, while 7% found it a letdown.

The Witcher is now streaming worldwide on Netflix.

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