'Tell Me Lies': Grace Van Patten and Jackson White on What Goes Into Filming Show's Sex Scenes (Exclusive)
, based on the novel by Carola Lovering, just premiered on Sept. 7 and already has people talking. The show follows Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) as she heads off to college and develops an obsession with a manipulative upperclassman named Stephen DeMarco (Jackson White).Like the book, the series includes lots of intense sex scenes, and Patten and White both spoke to ET about how they tackled these moments. In addition to working with an intimacy coordinator, the co-stars said they used a ball and other items to make the scenes look as realistic as possible. «You put a little rubber ball between your hips and then it looks like there’s thrusting but there’s actually a rubber ball in between you,» White, 26, explained to ET's Lauren Zima.