Thursday, January 30, 2020

Making Sex Scenes Safer

A lot has changed in Hollywood since the fall of 2017, when the #MeToo movement began—but SAG-AFTRA’s latest initiative could be the shift that has the greatest ongoing impact on the industry at large. As Julie Millerwrites, the actors union has unveiled a set of new standards and protocols for the use of intimacy coordinators—professionals whose job it is to manage the planning, preparation, and performance of sex scenes or scenes involving nudity to ensure the safety and comfort of the actors involved—on film and television sets. “We felt like if we were really going to move the ball forward, we had to create an agreed-upon structure amongst the people who do this work and the people who experience it,” SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris told Miller Tuesday. “Ideally, this is something the entire industry will adopt as a whole,”
Elsewhere in HWD; Maisie Williams chats with Joanna Robinson about life after Game of Thrones (and her new Super Bowl commercial); Jordan Hoffman and Richard Lawson review a pair of buzzy releases out of Sundance; and V.F. debuts our annual interactive Oscar ballot, the best way to prepare for the upcoming Academy Awards.