Sean Bean says intimacy coordinators “spoil the spontaneity” of sex scenes: “It would inhibit me”

Harry Styles in upcoming psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling.Directed by Olivia Wilde, the film follows young couple Alice (Pugh) and Jack Chambers (Styles) in the 1950s, whose happy marriage starts to unravel when she becomes suspicious of her husband’s work on a secret project.A lot of attention around the film has been drawn to the sex scenes between Pugh and Styles, with director Wilde saying last year she wanted to make audiences “realise how rarely they see female hunger, and specifically this type of female pleasure” on screens.Speaking to Harpers Bazaar, however, Pugh said she doesn’t want Don’t Worry Darling to be “reduced” to the sex scenes.“When it’s reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it,” Pugh said. “It’s not why I’m in this industry.“Obviously, the nature of hiring the most famous pop star in the world, you’re going to have conversations like that.

(CNN)Amanda Seyfried has described coming under pressure to appear in nude scenes when she was just 19 years old and starting out in show business. Seyfried, who has been nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, was discussing the progression of her career in a wide-ranging interview with Porter.

The Times, the Game Of Thrones and Snowpiercer star suggested that these specialists, who have become common place on film and TV sets since the rise of the #MeToo movement, would “spoil the spontaneity” of sex scenes.“I don’t know if you were speaking to someone who found it distracting,” Thompson said in an interview on Fitz & Wippa for Australia’s NovaFM (per People), “but [in] another conversation, you might find that people go, ‘It made me comfortable, it made me feel safe, it made me feel as though I was able to do this work.’ ”“So intimacy coordinators are the most fantastic introduction in our work. And no, you can’t just ‘let it flow,’ ” Thompson continued.

Thanks to the #MeToo movement (and, to a certain extent, the COVID-19 pandemic), intimacy coordinators on movie and TV sets are the entertainment industry’s new normal. So, what do actors think about this development?  Sean Bean‘s recent comments that ICs “spoil the spontaneity” of sex scenes unleashed a backlash from various actresses.

Sorry Sean Bean, Emma Thompson begs to differ.

K.J. Yossman Emma Thompson has defended the role of intimacy coordinators on set in a new interview.During an appearance on the Australian “Fitzy & Wippa” radio show to promote her new film, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” one of the presenters asked the Oscar-winning actor what she made of Sean Bean’s recent comments in which he decried the use of intimacy coordinators in productions.“Emma, I wanted to bring this up because I read it during the week, quite timely, but for the more intimate scenes that you guys had to do in the film, it was Sean Bean, who was Ned Stark in ‘Game of Thrones’ and he said he didn’t really appreciate the work of the intimacy coordinator because he said that it spoilt the spontaneity,'” said the radio host.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe team behind AMC’s “Interview With the Vampire” series weighed in on the use of intimacy coordinators on set during a panel for the Television Critics Association summer press tour.“We worked with an intimacy coordinator quite extensively,” series star Sam Reid said. “I think it’s really important working with an intimacy coordinator.

Sean Bean has received criticism from Hollywood actresses for his recent comments about intimacy coordinators.In an interview with The Times, the Game Of Thrones and Snowpiercer star suggested that these specialists, who have become common place on film and TV sets since the rise of the #MeToo movement, would “spoil the spontaneity” of sex scenes.“It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things,” said Bean of having an intimacy coordinator in the room. “Somebody saying, ‘Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his thing…”He added: “I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise.”Bean also said of his Snowpiercer cost-star Lena Hall, with whom he filmed an unaired sex scene: “This one had a musical cabaret background, so she was up for anything.”Hall was one of the first actresses to respond to Bean’s comments, writing in a tweet: “Just because I am in theatre (not cabaret, but I do perform them every once in a while) does not mean that I am up for anything.

Sean Bean is in some hot water after his comment to The Sunday Times that intimacy coordinators “ruin” and “spoil the spontaneity” of sex scenes in movies and TV shows. Now, Bean’s “Snowpiercer” costar Lena Hall has some comments of her own to clarify what the actor said about an intimate scene they had together in the show’s latest season that involved a mango.

Amanda Seyfried is reflecting on her career and the pressure she felt over shooting nude scenes at a young age. The Dropout Emmy-nominated actor wishes there were intimacy coordinators back when she started as she remembers being put in uncomfortable situations.

Zack Sharf Amanda Seyfried told Porter magazine that she purposely let herself be uncomfortable on film sets earlier in her career because she felt it was the only way to keep her job.The publication noted that the Emmy and Oscar nominee “wishes she could be coming up now, in an era where intimacy coordinators are an on-set requirement and actors are in a better position to speak up.” Seyfried said she emerged “pretty unscathed” from her early days as an actor in Hollywood, but she does look back in shock.“Being 19, walking around without my underwear on – like, are you kidding me? How did I let that happen?” Seyfried said. “Oh, I know why: I was 19 and I didn’t want to upset anybody and I wanted to keep my job.

K.J. Yossman Sean Bean’s “Snowpiercer” co-star Lena Hall has responded to his remarks that intimacy coordinators “spoil the spontaneity” of a sex scene.Bean made the comments to the U.K.’s Times Magazine in an interview to promote his latest BBC series, “Marriage.” “I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise,” he told the magazine, adding that Hall, with whom he’d had a number of intimate and nude scenes in “Snowpiercer,” “was up for anything” because of her “musical cabaret background.”Bean is best known for his turns as Ned Stark in “Game of Thrones” and Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy while Hall has starred in numerous Broadway productions, including shows such as “Kinky Boots” and “Cats” as well as making on-screen appearances in shows including “Girls” and “All My Children.” In response to Variety’s article covering Bean’s comments, Hall posted an eight-part Twitter thread in which she said: “Just because I am in theater (not cabaret, but I do perform them every once in a while) does not mean that I am up for anything.

Sean Bean, who played Ned Stark on Game of Thrones, told the Times of London Sunday Magazine that he is not a fan of intimacy coordinators because he fears they would “spoil the spontaneity” of intimate scenes.

Lena Hall is speaking out after being mentioned in comments made by actor Sean Bean.

UK’s the Times, Bean said an intimacy coordinator personally “inhibits [him] more.”“I should imagine it slows down the thrust of it. Ha, not the thrust, that’s the wrong word,” Bean, 63, said.“Somebody saying, ‘Do this, put your hand there, while you touch his thing …’ ” the actor added.

Intimacy Coordinators have been becoming a staple on movie and television sets in the past couple of years.

Times, Bean reflected on the graphic sex scenes in the BBC’s 1993 series “Lady Chatterley,” based on the book “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” saying that, had an intimacy coordinator been present on that set, his performance would’ve suffered.“It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things. Somebody saying, ‘Do this, put your hand there, while you touch his thing…’” he explained.