Josh Heuston and Tessa Bonham Jones spent ‘three days naked’ for racy sex scene in Dune spin-off
The blockbuster Dune spin-off series airs a racy sex scene this week which took days to film – and it features two hot Aussie stars.
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The highly anticipated new series Dune: Prophecy premiered last week and it didn’t take long before a sex scene aired – one featuring none other than Aussie stars Josh Heuston and Tessa Bonham Jones.
The spin-off to the Dune movies takes place about 10,000 years before the events of the films, which star Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides and Zendaya as Chani.
But the prequel takes on a much more seductive approach with more skin and less stillsuits featured on-screen, especially in Episode 2.
In the racy scene, Heuston gets his kit off on-camera as his character Constantine Corrino – a royal scion who is the illegitimate son of Imperial Emperor Corrino – lives a hedonistic lifestyle of sex, drugs and women.
His current conquest is the Duke’s daughter Lady Shannon Richese, played by Aussie actress Tessa Bonham Jones.
Despite the gyrating hips and oiled up bodies, it’s not as sexy as it looks, Heuston tells news.com.au of the sex scene that takes place inside a futuristic tree house.
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“I guess this sex scene, to me, it doesn’t feel that daunting,” he told us. “We had an intimacy co-ordinator, David, who was great, and Tessa, who plays Lady Shannon in the scenes with was also super, super comfortable.”
“When we filmed that scene, we had a day of rehearsal, and then we had two days filming it. So by the third day being naked, you feel pretty comfy. So for me, it’s pretty relaxed now. This was just another day on the tools.”
The series has drawn parallels to the other HBO success story, Game of Thrones. Both shows feature noble houses, a fight for power, deadly alliances, political intrigue and graphic sex scenes. Only difference is Dune: Prophecy just happens to be set out of this world.
“There’s a lot of crossover in fantasy sci-fi genres, but I guess the storytelling aspect of it with the great houses and then the overlapping storylines slowly start to converge on each other,” he says.
“It does have the similarities to Game of Thrones; it is quite similar in that. But then I guess Dune: Prophecy is just set in space.”
Heuston believes that although it is a fantasy series, the universal themes it explores – love, conflict, betrayal – are themes all viewers can relate to.
“The scripts are fantastic, first of all. Alison [Schapker] and Jordan [Goldberg] are the writers and they’ve just done an insane job. They’re both encyclopaedic with the knowledge of the Dune universe,” he says.
“You’ve got everything from the grand scale of a sci-fi fantasy world, but then they’ve also somehow managed to keep it like an intimate drama. There’s the dynamic between a father and son or brother and sister,” Heuston says.
“The hard, heavy lifting was mostly done in the text, which was really, really nice for us.”
And there’s plenty more mischief to come from his character this season.
“I think at the beginning of the series, you kind of see someone that’s a bit lost at sea, and as the series progresses, he starts to play a bit more of the game of chess that’s going on around him, and it gets a lot more interesting,” he shares.
“He kind of takes a bit more charge with, I guess, his own destiny.”
Dune: Prophecy is now available to stream on BINGE, with new episodes dropping every Monday.
Originally published as Josh Heuston and Tessa Bonham Jones spent ‘three days naked’ for racy sex scene in Dune spin-off
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