You may not think that shooting fake sex scenes would be harder than shooting real sex scenes for OnlyFans, but it’s true for former Skins star Megan Prescott.
Prescott is now 34-years-old and running her own OnlyFans account, but she recently opened up about what it was like having to shoot sex scenes as a 16-year-old on the set of Skins, where she starred as “Katie f***ing Fitch” along with her twin sister Kathryn.
If you’ve never seen an episode of the show, Prescott and the other teens played wild characters who spent their time getting high, hooking up, and throwing raging parties—but it didn’t stop there. Substance abuse, sexuality, teenage pregnancy, eating disorders, and mental illness were all shown in vivid detail on the show, which meant that the actual teens starring the show had to shoot the scenes.
April Pearson, an actor who played Michelle Richardson on the show, had previously discussed a ‘f***ed up experience’ she had when shooting these scenes, and co-star Nicholas Hoult who portrayed Tony Stonem also described the scenes as “weird.”
Fellow co-star Kaya Scodelario, who starred as Effy Stonem, has also claimed that there were no safeguards in place while the teens shot the scenes, which may explain why Jack O’Connell, who played James Cook, felt “compromised” while shooting these scenes as well.
As teens they didn’t fully understand what was going on, but now in her 30s, Prescott says she “wasn’t fully prepared” for the reality of being on TV at such a tender age—especially for those sex scenes.
“Having real teenagers was what made the show so relatable and so successful. But it was new territory. Most [teen] shows before that, those people were grown adults – they just looked young,” Prescott said.
It’s true that Skins was one of the few shows to use real teens in filming, and it was also before intimacy coordinators became commonplace on sets.
Prescott explained: “I imagine there was a lot of trial and error and by today’s standards, [Skins] wouldn’t be made. Intimacy coordinators didn’t even exist then, it wasn’t even a thing. There were lots of scenes where I was really uncomfortable at the time, because I was insecure about my body. Looking back, there really should have been some version of an intimacy coordinator, even if it didn’t exist, to navigate [the sex scenes]. We didn’t know what the hell we were doing.”
Perhaps that’s why Prescott feels more comfortable filming scenes for OnlyFans these days—because she is now a fully grown woman who knows exactly what she’s doing, and has full control of what she does and doesn’t do.
“When I’ve done OnlyFans, I’ve been in total control at every step of the way. I would be much more nervous to do a sex scene on TV or in a film, because I know it’s not me who’s editing it, it’s not me who’s lighting it, it’s not me who’s choosing when to post it. It’s very little control that I have. Whereas on OnlyFans, if I don’t like the footage, once I’ve shot it, I can delete it. I have all the control.”
And that’s why the platform appeals to many women. They finally get a sense of control of their sexuality and how they want to use it.