Sex Education star Asa Butterfield has joked that he feels “liberated” after exposing his bare bottom on the Netflix show.
The second season, which premiered on Netflix on Friday (17 January), sees the hit teen drama return to form with plenty of nudity and taboo-busting storylines.
“Feel liberated knowing most of the world can now see my bare a** on their TV,” wrote Butterfield on Twitter. “Cheeks out boys it’s 2020.”
Butterfield stars as a reluctant teenage sex therapist in the series, and his first scene in the new season prompted a strong reaction from viewers over the weekend.
The sequence in question was a three-minute montage of his character Otis masturbating in various locations, from his bedroom to a car park.
Sex Education season two was awarded four stars by The Independent’s critic Ed Cumming, who wrote that the show’s “greatest trick” is that it “manages to make even its more explicit material seem sweet and charming rather than gross or prurient”.
