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A second shot at Sex Education

SQUEALS AND LAUGHTER RING OUT ACROSS THE SET OF SEX EDUCATION. It’s Gillian Anderson’s last day of filming for Season 2, and Ncuti Gatwa—who plays the show’s ebullient teen Eric Effiong—has just discovered Anderson has hired an ice cream truck as a parting gift. A blackboard next to the treats, decorated with chalk drawings of genitalia, reads: TO THE CAST + CREW FROM GILLIAN ON HER LAST FILMING DAY. THANK YOU A MILLION ZILLION PENISES AND YONIS!!!!

It’s exactly what you might expect on the set of the heartfelt British teen sex comedy that earned acclaim last year for its mix of raunchy humor and vulnerability. In the first month after its debut, Netflix said 40 million accounts were on track to stream the first

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