Sean Bean Says Intimacy Coordinators ‘Spoil the Spontaneity,’ Decries Censorship
‘Games of Thrones’ Star Sean Bean Says Intimacy Coordinators ‘Spoil the Spontaneity,’ Decries Censorship https://t.co/ZdB85EqNry
- Variety (@Variety) August 8, 2022
Sean Bean says intimacy coordinators “spoil the spontaneity” of shooting a sex scene.
“It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things. Somebody saying, ‘Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his thing… I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise,
Comparing his experience to the raunchy 1993 adaptation of “Lady Chatterly’s Lover,” he starred opposite Joely Richardson.
“‘Lady Chatterly’ was spontaneous. It was a joy. We had a good chemistry between us, and we knew what we were doing was unusual. Because she was married, I was married. But we were following the story. We were trying to portray the truth of what DH Lawrence wrote.”
Bean also decried the censorship of his work at the behest of TV companies or advertisers.
In “Snowpiercer” TV series, where he filmed a scene naked alongside Lena Hall.
The duo become intimate with the aid of a mango.
“I think they cut a bit out actually. Often the best work you do, where you’re trying to push the boundaries, and the very nature of it is experimental, gets censored when TV companies or the advertisers say it’s so much. It’s a nice scene, quite surreal, dream-like and abstract. And mango-esque.”
About intimacy coordinators helping to protect actors in the wake of #MeToo,
“I suppose it depends on the actress. This one [referring to Hall] had a musical cabaret background, so she was up for anything.”
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