Sky News – Sex on set: How I prepare for scenes as an actress
Actor Elle McAlpine says a Sex Scenes on Set workshop helped her develop confidence and vocabulary for intimate scenes.
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Backstage – After Weinstein, a New Way to Approach On-Set Sex Scenes
For many actors, sex scenes can be fraught with embarrassment, uncertainty, and the downright unwanted, but intimacy director Ita O’Brien wants to change that. Before industry harassment scandals took hold of headlines everywhere, O’Brien had developed a way of empowering actors and directors to safely choreograph scenes involving nudity and simulated copulation on stage and screen; in the wake of Weinstein, she’s been in high demand. O’Brien and her agents, Samantha Dodd and Chris Carey, researched what often goes wrong in on-set sex scenes and are now campaigning with a set of guidelines that inform and protect actors. We caught up with them to discover how it works and what actors need to know to work well and stay safe…
BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Downsizing, filming sex scenes and a satire on ceramics
Matt Damon’s new film Downsizing reviewed, choreographing sex scenes in the #MeToo era. Plus a history of political and satirical prints transferred onto British ceramics.
The Times – The new rules of sex: how Hollywood is rethinking on-screen intimacy in the post-Weinstein era
In the wake of the #MeToo scandal, the movie business is reviewing how sex scenes are directed. Chrissy Iley joins an “intimacy workshop” where actors can master the new code of close contact…