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Juliet Rylance goes TOPLESS in sizzling resurfaced sex scene from The Knick... as she prepares to star in slick new drama McMafia

Published: 04:03 EST, 28 December 2017 | Updated: 05:57 EST, 28 December 2017

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She's bagged a starring role in hotly-anticipated drama McMafia.

And as she prepares to play the sizzling leading lady and love interest of James Norton, Juliet Rylance has proved she has no problems playing a femme fatale, as demonstrated in The Knick.

Resurfaced scenes from her 2013 role in the American hospital drama see the 38-year-old actress strip topless for a steamy sex scene.

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Stripping off: Juliet Rylance has proved she has no problems playing a femme fatale, as demonstrated in a resurfaced 2013 sex scene from historical hospital drama The Knick

Juliet starred alongside Clive Owen in The Knick, which followed the lives of staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century.

She previously spoke of her joy at playing such a racy character, telling Gold Derby : 'She has to be very buttoned up. There is social etiquette of what’s expected from her and, obviously, she has to behave in a certain way, but there’s this flipside to her, which I love.

'She loves first and thinks later, and I love that juxtaposition between being very buttoned up in one sense and very unbuttoned sort of in privacy, so that’s really fun.'

Two's company: Juliet will now appear in the BBC’s big-budget New Year drama McMafia - where she stars alongside James Norton

Juliet will now appear in the BBC’s big-budget New Year drama McMafia - where she stars alongside James Norton.

McMafia was inspired by Misha Glenny’s non-fiction book McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime, which was published in 2008, but the majority of the main story is fictional.

Across eight hour-long episodes, McMafia spins a multi-layered tale of corrupt politicians, money-laundering, counterfeiting and human trafficking, bringing us close to this new criminal order.

Leading lady: Juliet has proved her diversity in the acting world and is now gearing up to play James Norton's love interest in the hotly-anticipated New Years BBC drama, McMafia

In a giddying world tour, it takes in more locations than any BBC drama series has ever done before, visiting 12 different countries, filming in places as varied as the Egyptian desert, the Mumbai docks and Moscow’s Red Square.

The drama tells the story of Dimitri Godman, Alex’s father, and his mother Oksana (played by Aleksey Serebryakov and Maria Shukshina, the Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep of Russia, according to Watkins).

Some years before we meet them, they had been driven by a rival Russian gang boss into exile in England. Living in morose, vodka-infused purposelessness, still under threat from their Moscow-based nemesis, the couple had done what Glenny observed was a characteristic of the modern successful gangster: they put their children through a classic English education.

McMafia begins on New Year’s Day at 9pm on BBC1

Juliet will now appear in the BBC’s big-budget New Year drama McMafia - where she stars alongside (L-R) : Aleksey Serebryakov, James Norton, Maria Shukshina and Faye Marsay