Henry Cavill Is Not A Fan of Sex Scenes

[stewie_e]

Henry Cavill says "I'm not a fan" of sex scenes and "I don't understand them."

"I think sometimes they’re overused these days...it can be a little bit of a cop-out if a TV show or a movie is just filled with gyrating bodies and you’re going, ‘Okay, but what is this doing for us… pic.twitter.com/Qbc6CCJax5
- Variety (@Variety) February 6, 2024
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[holyfrijoles_2]

I can already imagine the response Film Twitter is going to have about this but they need to allow the actual workers doing these scenes to express their discomfort about their literal work conditions before they immediately jump to calling them a putriteen imo.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Film twitter is so concerned about letting everyone they wanna save cinema that they don't care when people voice actual concern about what goes on behind the scenes in said cinema.

I've said it before but I've always gotten the feeling that the ones crying the most about how sanitized and the lack of sex scenes are just the types that need that voyueristic escapism cause clearly you're not getting outside of cinema. Cause why the intense need when you got female actress and the occasional male actor saying that they felt exploited and/or pressured into it.

[holyfrijoles_2]

I have already seen negative responses to to Henry and I do not give a single shit about this man but it is so weird when critics are acting as if actors kind of not wanting sex scenes in their work( I’m also thinking of pen badgley rn) means that they are personally going to march on Washington in favor of reinstating the Hays Code.

The critics will never know emotionally how it will feel to actually shoot an intimate scene so they need to give actors space to express negative emotions about them. Henry, who was on The Tudors not wanting to have sex scenes in cinema is something to further explore.

[naturesluzzer]

I feel like there's separate issues being conflated into one generic debate.

One is about sex scenes existing, another is the lack of overall eroticism+chemistry, and the last is the safety of the actors. I think it's good for past and current sets to be called out for not creating a safe environment, and the importance of intimicacy coordinators to be emphasized, but I don't think sex scenes themselves are a problem.

It's all in how they're handled and the intentions behind them. Personally I would argue there's a lot of value in a well-done sex scene which is meant to be joyous and loving and shows it can be done without exploitation, especially given how many young people only understand it through porn.

[jazzl3t]

THIS THIS THIS.

[hazypink]

I 100% agree

Whenever there’s discourse for or against sex scenes I always feel like I hear multiple different discussions going on that all get fed into one “yay or nay” argument