Skins star Kaya Scodelario reveals she refused sex scenes in the show

Kaya Scodelario has revealed that she gained the courage to refuse sex scenes when filming Skins.

The star stunned The Gentlemen viewers earlier this year when they realised she was the same actor who played Effy in the hit E4 show that first aired back in 2007.

Skins gave Scodelario her big break when she was just 14, playing the sister of Nicholas Hoult’s Tony Stonem.

When she’d been on the show for three years, she ended up getting her own spin-off TV show Skins: Fire.

And when it came to the final bits of it all, the 32-year-old explained that because both she and her character were older, the original script was pretty heavy on the sex scenes – now that’s saying something considering what Skins was already like.

She pushed back on the script (Joe Maher/Getty Images)

But Scodelario spoke to the producers and pushed back because she simply didn’t see a ‘need’ for it.

“I felt much more confident in saying what I felt during that series,” The Maze Runner actor told The Guardian.

“When the first draft came through, there were a lot of sex scenes in it, and I could tell it was because I turned 18, and that meant that they could show more. And I went back and said: ‘No, there’s no need to do that’.”

While she explained ‘nothing too awful’ happened when she was working on Skins, Scodelario certainly welcomes the safeguarding and intimacy co-ordinators that are now standard practice in the industry.

She previously spoke to NME about the parallels that have been drawn between the old British show and American series Euphoria.

“I was thinking, 'God these actors are so brave' and that this must be quite scary for them,” the star said.

She started playing Effy at 14 (E4)

"I then had this realisation that I did all that at 14 without anybody taking care of us."

While saying ‘the safeguarding wasn’t there’ on the set of Skins, she ‘hopes the actors get taken care of’ on the set of Euphoria.

And with it still being a big cultural moment to this day, you’d be surprised that there was talk at the time of Skins being a flop.

“Even the crew were saying they didn’t think it would get picked up,” she told The Guardian.

"I remember one of the electricians on set going: 'I’ve worked on really expensive period dramas that didn’t get a second season – there’s no f**king way this will'.

"And then, kind of overnight, it happened."

Well, it certainly did.