Jackson White just revealed some NSFW details about the Tell Me Lies set.
The actor, who plays Stephen DeMarco on the hit Hulu drama, spilled some tea while sitting down with his mom Katey Sagal and stepdad Kurt Sutter for an episode of their podcast, Slice of Pie.
Calling the behind-the-scenes fact one that “the internet will like,” White, 28, revealed that the show has just one intimacy coordinator, so their time on-set “would kind of line up with like a week, so it would be like a sex week.”
“There’d be sex scenes all day long,” he said. “So there’d be, like, an intimacy coordinator running from set to set because Lucy and Leo were doing it, but then Brie and Oliver were doing it… And it would be like, sex days.”
He joked that he would just “be in my trailer” while the scenes — some of which involved his real-life girlfriend and onscreen love interest, Grace Van Patten — were being filmed.
White also shared yet another NSFW story on the podcast, as he revealed that during the show’s first season, “someone” informed him that he was “not thrusting right” during the sex scenes he was filming. “And I was like, ‘What? How?'”
He recalled being told, “We have to make it so that it’s more realistic,” and he was also told he was “doing kind of like a body roll thing” so he was asked to “work” on that, too.
Working with his girlfriend on such a steamy show might seem like a weird experience, but Van Patten, 27, told PEOPLE that it actually makes her feel “so so safe and so comfortable.”
“I had this fear of, ‘You’re going to know when I’m acting.’ Before we got into [season 2], I was like, ‘Am I going to be insecure? Am I going to be… Because you know me so well, you’re going to know.’ And then once we were on set, I was like, ‘No, it’s actually the opposite.'”
It is “trippy,” though, she said, “because we are together in real life and he knows me better than anyone.”
She joked that their characters’ tumultuous relationship actually helps their real-life one. “It’s like, we get to fight and let it all out on camera and then we’re great. It’s our couple’s therapy.”
Plus, they’re “wildly different” from their characters. “Thank goodness,” she quipped.
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Tell Me Lies seasons 1 and 2 are now streaming on Hulu.
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