Turning up the warmth! Sarah Shahi and Adam Demos leaned into their real-life romance whereas filming season 2 of Intercourse/Life.
“I feel with Adam and Sarah, they really feel protected collectively they usually’re very snug with one another,” Intercourse/Life intimacy coordinator, Casey Hudecki, solely instructed Us Weekly on Monday, March 6. “I feel of their scenes, they’re free to have much more enjoyable and play with one another.”
Hudecki — who additionally labored with the actors on season 1, which filmed in fall 2020 earlier than they had been formally an merchandise — famous that she nonetheless had to assist Shahi, 43, and Demos, 37, throughout their on-camera intercourse scenes.
Adam Demos and Sarah Shahi. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
“My process early on within the season was No. 1, to examine in with them and go, ‘OK, so that you’re collectively this season, how can I make it easier to really feel protected?’” she recalled. “’How can I make it easier to shield your relationship as your characters go off and produce other relationships? How can I assist the actors who’re … being their scene companions to really feel protected and to be happy though they know that, you already know, Adam and Sarah [are] collectively?’ So there’s plenty of speaking.”
The stunt coordinator identified that followers didn’t get as a lot of Shahi and Demos’ characters collectively on season 2. The actors play Billie Connelly and Brad Simon, respectively on the Netflix sequence.
“They’re a delight,” Hudecki instructed Us of the real-life couple. “We didn’t get to do very a lot with the 2 of them this season. So each time we did it was very simple.”
The Canadian-based combat director added: “They had been like, ‘Yep, we all know this, we all know that we all know this.’ We had a really good shorthand.”
Shahi and Demos confirmed their romance on New Yr’s Eve in 2020 after assembly on the set of the Netflix drama earlier that 12 months. The connection got here a number of months after Us solely confirmed in June 2020 that the Texas native cut up from husband Steve Howey after 11 years of marriage.
Demos and Shahi on the 2021 Folks’s Alternative Awards, December 2021. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
The L Phrase alum, who shares son William, 13, and twins Violet and Knox, 8, with the Shameless alum, 45, finalized her divorce in January 2021.
Later that month, Demos gushed over Shahi on her birthday. “Comfortable bday my child, I f*#kin love you. You’re all the things,” he wrote by way of Instagram on the time.
The Black Adam actress returned the favor on Demos’ special occasion in Could 2021. “I do know I discovered my without end. I do know I’ve by no means liked deeper, more durable, extra ferociously,” Shahi wrote by way of social media. “I do know I’m overly grateful for him. I do know I’ve liked him for a thousand lifetimes earlier than and can love him for a thousand lifetimes extra.”
The couple confirmed they’re nonetheless going robust by packing on the PDA on the February premiere of Intercourse/Life season 2 in Los Angeles.
Intercourse/Life season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
Join Us Weekly’s free, day by day e-newsletter and by no means miss breaking information or unique tales about your favourite celebrities, TV reveals and extra!
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
