Sam Mendes says Olivia Colman was ‘very embarrassed’ about sex scenes

Director Sir Sam Mendes appearing on Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg (Jeff Overs/BBC/PA)

Sir Sam Mendes said actress Olivia Colman was embarrassed to perform sex scenes in his upcoming film Empire Of Light alongside her younger co-star but he had wanted to see the characters’ “physical desire”.

The new film from James Bond director Sir Sam is set in an old cinema in an English seaside town in the early 1980s and explores human connection and romance.