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There was no intimacy coordinator on set first few seasons of Outlander<\/em>, Caitr\u00edona Balfe recalled in a new interview<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n She said she and her costars, Sam Heughan and Tobias Menzies, were all “very nervous about the amount of sex scenes,” and that anxiety grew alongside an “expectation and an appetite” for the Starz series to have a lot of steamy scenes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “You learn the hard way, maybe, how to protect yourself a bit more,” Balfe said of filming those moments on the show<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n The early seasons of Outlander<\/em><\/a> were the “Wild West” for stars Caitr\u00edona Balfe<\/a> and Sam Heughan<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Starz series established during its first season, which premiered in 2014, that steamy moments would be a key part of the love story between Claire (Balfe) and Jamie (Heughan). The reality of filming those scenes, though, became something of a challenge for the actors despite the fandom they generated for the show.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were very nervous about the amount of sex scenes,” Balfe told Bustle<\/a> on an episode of the One Nightstand<\/em> podcast released on Tuesday, March 31. “I had never done anything like that, I don’t think Sam had, I know Tobias [Menzies<\/a>] hadn’t. And so it was very new territory for all of us, but [showrunner] Ron [Moore] was like, \u2018I really want these to be part of the storytelling.\u2019 And that was our directive in the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs it went on, it got harder to maintain that directive because, if you become known for something, then people have an expectation and an appetite for it,” Balfe, 46, said. “What we were really trying to do is like, \u2018Look, we’re going to show you a beautiful, intimate relationship, but it’s not always going to be about sex.’ “<\/p>\n