Stephen Moyer has admitted that his sex scenes in True Blood are easy to film, considering that his on screen partner Sookie Stackhouse is played by his real life fiancée, Anna Paquin.

Whilst promoting the launch of the show on UK’s Channel 4 Stephen told MSN: “Well obviously it makes it (easier), I mean, being in a relationship with a person that you’re doing the work with opens up certain doors that wouldn’t be there if you were working with somebody who you weren’t with, so we are able to shoot sex scenes in a way that perhaps people who have just met weren’t able to do.”

“That still doesn’t mean you want everybody to see your bits,” he laughed. “We still work for everybody not to see stuff.”

Stephen added that he thinks that part of the show’s popularity can be attributed to the current financial recession.

“I think at the moment with the recession and the way it is, people want to get outside themselves and outside the kitchen sink and be taken somewhere else,” he concluded.