Richard Armitage Talks 'Obsession' Full Frontal Scene, Reveals If That Was Him or a Prosthetic

Netflix’s new steamy series Obsession is now streaming and it’s bound to become the next big hit series.

The story centers around a dangerous love triangle that emerges when the enigmatic Anna Barton (Charlie Murphy) embarks on a passionate affair with her fiance’s father, William (Richard Armitage). Whilst Anna fights to sustain both relationships, William is drawn into an obsessive spiral. But how long can they keep their secret hidden before someone gets hurt?


Richard bares it all at one point in the series during a full frontal scene and he’s opening up about the buzzworthy moment.


“When a project like this comes in your direction, there are a lot of people trying to warn you and say, ‘It’s going to be challenging, it’s going to be very revealing, and there will be a lot of intimacy’. But I thought, ‘It’s fine.’ I’ll approach this like a European, like how the French deal with cinema, see their view of the human body and their view of relationships and intimacy,” Richard told Hello.

So, was it really Richard in the scene or did he wear a prosthetic? It was all him!

“My attitude is ‘It’s the body, it’s the human body’. Just be a little bit laissez-faire about it. If you are uncomfortable with it, then it’s your problem. Don’t be uncomfortable about it,” he said. “We worked with an amazing intimacy coordinator called Adelaide Waldrop. I think people view the intimacy coordinator as the onset police but she had a more directorial point of view to assist Glenn and Lisa as directors. She was sort of part director, part psychologist and part choreographer. There were doors opened and places that we could go to and explore without inhibitions with everybody involved in that process and with everyone feeling not just comfortable with it, but sort of excited about what we were going to try and do.”