Kaya Scodelario Just Revealed That She Refused To Shoot Needless Sex Scenes For A “Skins” Spin-Off Series — Despite Showrunners Trying To Add More Because She Was Finally Over 18

Speaking on April’s podcast, Laya recalled the female cast members queuing up in their bikinis so that the male showrunner could approve their bodies before they filmed a swimwear scene.

“There was one point where we were told to skip breakfast, and for dinner, we should just have a jacket potato,” she said at the time. "We had to go to Morocco for the first episode of Season 6, and we each had to, in a bikini or our swimwear, one by one stand in a room with just us and the creator of the show.”

“He was male and a lot older than we were — we were between the ages of 16 and 18 — and be told if we looked good enough to film in Morocco,” Laya continued. "Costume told me to go first because I'm the most comfortable one, to show the other girls it's not that bad — but it was bad.”

“At the time, I thought it was horrible,” she added. “But I think it’s so much fucking worse now.”

April agreed: “At the time you're young and you don't know any better. You don't really know what to say, to speak out, is this OK. … And as with a lot of victims of trauma, you look back at it and think, Yeah, that was fucked up.”