LONDON — Cara Delevingne has been tapped to host a new Hulu/BBC documentary series “exploring the biggest questions in human sexuality,” including porn.
The model, actress and socialite's new project has the working title “Planet Sex” and it was announced yesterday as a Hulu/BBC Three endeavor.
The production company is the British outfit Naked Television (part of Freemantle), founded by former Fox exec Simon Andreae.
“Planet Sex,” packaged by agency WME, was created and is being executive produced by Andreae and Delevingne, with Amy Foster also executive producing.
The announcement explained that Delevingne will put “mind and body on the line” to exploring the questions of human sexuality,” including “opening herself up to experiments and demonstrations in the world’s leading sex research labs.”
Andreae also has previous experience on the subject, having written the pop science book “Anatomy of Desire: The Science and Psychology of Sex, Love and Marriage” in 1998.
The Mysteries of Sex
The new series, according to the BBC, will “explore and address key questions related to our gender, our sexual orientation, our relationships, the popularity of porn and more.”
The U.S. outlet for the documentary series, Hulu, is fully controlled and majority-owned by Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International, a business segment of The Walt Disney Company.
Delevingne said in a statement that “as someone who struggled for years to understand my sexual identity, I am so excited to be […] making a series that could change the views of so many people through honest and personal conversations.”
“I can only imagine what having a series like this would have meant to the 14-year-old me who struggled to understand feelings that were seen as non-conventional or different,” Delevingne, who identifies as gender-fluid and pansexual, added.
“Cara is an incredibly powerful voice within the LGBTQIA+ community, who is well-positioned to be able to confront and question some of sex and gender’s most enduring and important mysteries,” Andreae added.
According to entertainment news site Dateline, “filming took place on 'Planet Sex' earlier this year, but the shoot was paused as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Production is now back underway.”
