Carnival Row will be released on Amazon Prime this morning and viewers are in for an action-packed journey as Cara Delevingne and Orlando Bloom are launched into a world where both man and fae have to live alongside each other after a tragic turn of events.
However, the show is no fairytale as it is full of both violent and sexual scenes right from the opening few minutes.
It comes as no surprise that Orlando’s character Rycroft Philostrate, finds himself at the heart of many scenes and the award-winning actor has spoke out about some of the more risky sequences.
Speaking to Express.co.uk ahead of the show’s screening, Orlando described the sex scenes as “awkward”, but revealed they weren’t without reason.
Orlando begun: “They’re always a little awkward honestly, there’s a lot of people standing around watching you pretend to have sex if that’s the scene, or violence or whatever it may be but I don’t think it’s intentionally gratuitous.
“It sort of leads into part of the fantasy genre of the show, it’s good.”
Despite some of the more uncomfortable moments, the star revealed he was glad to be part of the process.
He continued: “With fantasy lands, we can look at the world through today through a great social commentary about the refugee migrant crisis, race sexuality and power and the abuse of.
“It’s all the brainchild of our creator and showrunner Travis Beachum who had this genius idea about twenty years ago and it’s finally come to fruition so it’s been a long time but it’s been good.”
Orlando’s character, nicknamed Philo, works to solve the case of a mysterious killer taking victims across the city, which is named The Burgue.
The universe is explored in the Neo-Victorian era where the city has had an influx of winged refugees, referred to as “fae folk” who have fallen victim to the murders.
The star is set to have plenty of interactions with Cara Delevingne as she plays his love interest faerie Vignette Stonemoss.
There is a prominent forbidden love theme as they embark upon a dangerous affair among an increasingly intolerant society.
Could their relationship land them into deep waters?
Vignette, who plays a maid in a rich household of Imogen Spurnrose (Tamzin Merchant) after her homeland is destroyed.
The two are worlds apart as Orlando’s character bursts onto screen with a familiar East-End accent and quickly falls into violent fight scenes with evil criminals.
However, Cara’s character Vignette seems more reserved, broken by her tragic past.
The two are set to see plenty more interactions as the season uncovers their history before the tragedies took place.
Vignette proves to be in deep grief for her homeland as the series is set to explore how she deals with that in the new world where she is forced to live alongside humans.
Carnival Row starts today on Amazon Prime
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