Aidan Gillen on how he created Queer As Folk rimming scene with Charlie Hunnam 25 years later: ‘We were careful’

Charlie Hunnam, Aidan Gillen and Craig Kelly in Queer As Folk (Image: Channel 4)

Aidan Gillen has revisited his famous rimming scene with Charlie Hunnam in Queer As Folk, which aired 25 years ago.

The pair’s sexually-charged storyline in the Channel 4 show, created by Doctor Who‘s Russel T Davies, generated mass headlines at the time.

Discussing the show’s legacy in a new interview with GQ, Aidan, Russell and other members of Team Queer As Folk, such as Craig Kelly, all touched on their memories of the scene.

“We were careful about it” – Queer As Folk‘s Aidan Gillan

Said Aidan: “I mean, it was just a scene, you know. [Laughs.] We were careful about it. Nowadays they’d have intimacy coordinators, and all this kind of stuff… The important thing

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