A British actress has found herself at the centre of an American TV storm. Sonya Walger, 33, who got a First in English Literature from Christ Church, Oxford before moving to Los Angeles, stars in the new HBO series Tell Me You Love Me, which has stunned critics.
They say the show, about the love lives of three middle-class American couples who are all seeing the same therapist, is easily the most sexually explicit TV series ever shown in America.
"The sex scenes in this couples-therapy show are so graphic - organs, angles, fluids - that it's led some viewers to wonder if the actors are, in fact, doing the deed on screen," wrote the TV critic for Time. In the first episode Walger's character is shown masturbating her husband to orgasm "with the entire act and all relevant body parts
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plainly visible", according to another critic.
"It's hard," says Walger (left) of her graphic sex scenes. "It's hard to act as it is to watch. It's uncomfortable, which is why you know you're doing something good, because the sex scenes are essentially scenes that have no dialogue but say as much as if they did, which is what makes them so interesting to play."
British viewers may recall Walger from the last season of the rather tamer BBC time travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart in which she played Flic. The blonde actress, who was born and educated in Britain although her father is Argentinian, moved to Los Angeles about six years ago and has worked consistently on US television ever since.
"I wanted a voyeuristic feel," says Cynthia Mort, the show's creator and executive producer, explaining why 
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