Sex/Life spoilers ahead.
Sex/Life has become our new guilty pleasure on Netflix and we can’t seem to get enough of it.
The steamy show has been a hot topic of conversation ever since it dropped on the streaming service in late June, with viewers immersed into the erotic mind of Billie (played by Sarah Shahi), a stay-at-home mum who is bored to death of her middle-class suburban life in Connecticut with her husband, Cooper (Mike Vogel) and their two kids.
Based on BB Easton’s 2016 novel 44 Chapters About 4 Men, the series is full of explicit sex scenes and fantasies – all of which we recently found out were based on a true story – as
Billie begins to lust for her previous sexual adventures with ex-boyfriends, yearning for the passion-filled life she once.
One particular ex named Brad (played by Adam Demos) dominates Billie’s thoughts throughout the series, to the point where she actually leaves her family to rekindle their romance. The two film some seriously intimate sex scenes, none of which they used body doubles for according to the cast. In fact, Shahi told Extra TV that she was “scared almost every day” on set because she knew she had to film the scenes.
Similarly, Demos told People that he and the cast had a lot of practise runs before filming to get the raunchy scenes right and make sure everyone was comfortable. “We just would have so many rehearsals with them to make sure everyone understood what we were going to be doing in the scene,” he said. “What we were comfortable with, and we rehearsed them so much that it becomes like choreography.”
However, one thing that helps Demos and Shani is the fact that the two are a real life couple. That’s right, the chemistry we see between them is so convincing because it’s real.
The new couple met in the makeup trailer on set when filming began and instantly hit off, according to Sarah who told People: “We got on instantly. We had the exact same taste in music. We had the same taste in whiskey and tequilas and I was really blown away by him just as a person and all I knew was that I wanted more.”
Ah, we love a on-screen off screen couple!
Plus, we won’t be the only ones who have become completely obsessed with the cast since watching the show, especially the man God that is Adam Demos. So to make your social media stalking all the more easy, we’ve found the Instagram handles of the Sex/Life cast so you can keep up to date with them, whilst drooling at how hot everyone on the show is.
Enjoy!