I’ve figured out how BBC is going to add more sex to Les Mis: Victor Hugo Himself will be a character. Victor “I had so much sex on my wedding night that my wife got mad at me” Hugo. Victor “historians argue about how many partners I had” Hugo. Victor “when I died all the prostitutes in the city wore black over their crotches to mourn their favourite client” Hugo. Victor “random acts of nudity” Hugo. It’s not going to be any of the other characters at all, it’s just going to be … Hugo … himself …
they’re going to include his monologue but also borrowing the “sexposition” trope, so we’ll see him fucking random people while talking to them (and the audience) about the Paris sewers.
Depending on the scene, it shifts between a Younger Hugo making out with Juliette or Leonie or ???, and full-bearded Exile Hugo snogging So Many Random Passerby