It’s very appealing and refreshing to watch you and Edward Bluemel instantly have absolute bonfire chemistry. How did you prepare for your love scenes together?
It was all very intentional. We had a lot of conversations with the writers and our amazing intimacy coordinator, Ita O’Brien. We wanted it to be sexy sexy, because there’s nothing worse than when you see a bad kiss onscreen. Gemma, our showrunner, asked in her Instagram Stories, “What are the best kiss scenes that you’ve seen on TV?” And then she put them all on her Stories. We watched them together and realized, Okay, so people like when it’s a little more real. They don’t want it to be perfect and staged like a Casablancamoment — no shade to Casablanca; it’s amazing. But with real people, it feels a bit messy, people are laughing through those moments. We wanted to make that come to life.
Did the intimacy coordinator make any particular suggestions that helped with these scenes?
We rehearsed everything — sometimes they would even have storyboards of scenes, because it is choreography, like a fight scene or a dance. It has to be shot for comfortability, for safety, for camera. And then she would have conversations with everyone, before and after, telling us, “These are your words you say if, at any point, you decide you’re uncomfortable or feeling stressed.” And afterward, because it’s very vulnerable, she’d say, “Okay, now break, get all of that stress of the day, if there was any, out.” Those scenes are very vulnerable, and she’s the right person to compliment you because otherwise it might come across kind of weird. She made us feel really confident. It’s just another day at work, and everyone is laughing, recognizing that this is a weird job that we do!
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It was all very intentional. We had a lot of conversations with the writers and our amazing intimacy coordinator, Ita O’Brien. We wanted it to be sexy sexy, because there’s nothing worse than when you see a bad kiss onscreen. Gemma, our showrunner, asked in her Instagram Stories, “What are the best kiss scenes that you’ve seen on TV?” And then she put them all on her Stories. We watched them together and realized, Okay, so people like when it’s a little more real. They don’t want it to be perfect and staged like a Casablancamoment — no shade to Casablanca; it’s amazing. But with real people, it feels a bit messy, people are laughing through those moments. We wanted to make that come to life.
Did the intimacy coordinator make any particular suggestions that helped with these scenes?
We rehearsed everything — sometimes they would even have storyboards of scenes, because it is choreography, like a fight scene or a dance. It has to be shot for comfortability, for safety, for camera. And then she would have conversations with everyone, before and after, telling us, “These are your words you say if, at any point, you decide you’re uncomfortable or feeling stressed.” And afterward, because it’s very vulnerable, she’d say, “Okay, now break, get all of that stress of the day, if there was any, out.” Those scenes are very vulnerable, and she’s the right person to compliment you because otherwise it might come across kind of weird. She made us feel really confident. It’s just another day at work, and everyone is laughing, recognizing that this is a weird job that we do!
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