HOLLYWOOD'S Darren Criss has lifted the lid on ‘very graphic’ sex scenes and penis prosthetics for full-frontal romps in the new Netflix series.
The 33-year-old stars in Ryan Murphy's lavish new series on the streaming service, which is described as a "love letter to the golden age of Tinseltown" and an "aspirational tale of what ifs".
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The trailer featured sex scenes and nudity, and Darren - who plays director Raymond Ainsley - said the original script was even more explicit.
He told YouTube livestream Stars in the House: "There's no f***ing numbers on the dial anymore for how raunchy it was.
"They dialed it back severely to focus more on the heart and the hope...There was s**t I clutched my pearls at."
David Corenswet - who plays actor Jack Costello - added: "The initial draft of the script was very graphic, they toned it down."
Former Glee star Darren added: "The descriptions of stuff were uber-salacious, the vibe was super-charged sexuality.
"How you shoot a scene and how it's written, there's a margin of disparity. But it certainly did make the initial read-through a little terrifying."
If that wasn't scary enough, a number of cast members had fittings for prosthetics for potential full-frontal nude scenes.
Darren's co-star Jeremy Pope - who plays screenwriter Archie Coleman - admitted he didn't initially realise what he was saying yes to.
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He recalled: "Most of us said 'Yes,' then we got episodes 1 and 2. I was like 'Ooo, does Archie get beat up? What am I getting?'
"Then I started putting the pieces together of 'Oh, we're not talking about anything above the waist of a prosthetic'."
Hollywood also stars former Big Bang Theory actor Jim Parsons, Queen Latifah and Holland Taylor.
Hollywood is streaming now on Netflix.
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