The team behind Normal People are currently in a dispute with adult entertainment website, Pornhub, after a video of all the sex scenes from the show appeared on the site.
The platform has seen users upload videos of up to 22-minutes of the show's sexual encounters from the 12-episode series, which debuted on BBC's iPlayer last month.
Speaking to Variety, the show's executive producer, Ed Guiney said: "We’re hugely disappointed that excerpts from the series of Normal People have been used in this way. It’s both a violation of copyright and more importantly, it’s deeply disrespectful to the actors involved and to the wider creative team. We have taken appropriate steps to require that the content be removed from the platform with immediate effect."
Watch the trailer for Normal People below:The video in question has since been removed after it appeared last week.
Pornhub's Vice President, Corey Price, has now said that they are now complying with copyright law. "Pornhub is fully compliant with the law. We respect all copyright requests and as soon as we become aware of the existence of these types of videos on our site, we have them removed," he stated.
Normal People, based on the bestselling book by Sally Rooney, follows Connell (Paul Mescal) and Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones), and their relationship through their time in school and university in Ireland.
Mescal and Edgar-Jones reportedly worked with UK-based intimacy coordinator, Ita O'Brien, for the sex scenes. Speaking about her experiences on set in a recent interview with Dazed, Edgar-Jones said: "Paul and I hadn’t done many of those scenes before starting, but Ita was so wonderful. She took the pressure off completely. The scenes ended up being quite positive."
"The fact that they put policies and structures in place allowed me to go about doing the things that are really important to the book as honestly as possible. Also, we were given guidelines in terms of the physical blocking, but it never felt like there was a disconnect from the emotional part of the scene – it never felt clinical or creatively dead," Mescal corroborated.
