{"id":49833,"date":"2025-09-29T03:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49833\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T03:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:06:13","slug":"the-walsh-sisters-writer-and-actor-stefanie-preissner-on-filming-her-first-ever-sex-scene-for-the-rte-adaptation-of-marian-keyes-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/49833\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walsh Sisters writer and actor Stefanie Preissner on filming her first ever sex scene for the RT\u00c9 adaptation of Marian Keyes&#8217; books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWhen she wrote an intimate scene for \u2018The Walsh Sisters\u2019 \u2013 RT\u00c9\u2019s new series based on Marian Keyes\u2019 bestselling books \u2013 Stefanie Preissner didn\u2019t foresee that she\u2019d be the one playing the character. Here, she reveals how detailed choreography, a Pilates ball and an early period all contributed to getting Maggie Walsh laid\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stefanie Preissner as Maggie Walsh during her episode three sex scene in The Walsh Sisters. Photo: RT\u00c9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MG STEFANIE WALSH SIS.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stefanie Preissner as Maggie Walsh during her episode three sex scene in The Walsh Sisters. Photo: RT\u00c9<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If I\u2019d known I was going to end up playing Maggie Walsh, I would never, and I genuinely mean never, have given her the only intimacy scene in the entire series. At the writing stage, it seemed like a good idea. A dash of vulnerability, a slice of realism. But sitting here now, having lived through the day itself, I can say with confidence: if my past self had any foresight, she would\u2019ve written Maggie into a library, a convent, or a lifelong vow of celibacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Because now, thousands (hopefully millions), of people will see me having sex on screen, in episode three of The Walsh Sisters \u2013 the adaptation of Marian Keyes\u2019 books I have been working on as writer and producer for the last seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When she wrote an intimate scene for \u2018The Walsh Sisters\u2019 \u2013 RT\u00c9\u2019s new series based on Marian Keyes\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,13693,34309],"class_list":{"0":"post-49833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-life-magazine","12":"tag-marian-keyes","13":"tag-stefanie-preissner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}