'GOT' alum Sean Bean REVEALS intimacy coordinators 'ruin the spontaneity' of sex scenes
Most actors like to keep it hush-hush when it comes to talking about the sex scenes they partook in during movies and shows. Some prefer to keep it under covers, while some have voiced their opinions, including the 'Game Of Thrones' alum Sean Bean, who made sure to spill the beans about how intimacy coordinator on the set can create hindrances while shooting intimate scenes.
The 63-year-old actor, who portrayed Lord Eddard Stark, also known as Ned Stark in 'Game of Thrones', confessed during a recent interview with The Sunday Times that the activeness of an intimacy coordinator on sets would only restrain him more as it drew attention to things. “It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things,” Bean said. He spoke out about the discomfort and awkwardness actors have to face, adding that intimacy coordinators make sex scenes a technical exercise rather than a natural moment between actors, which could "spoil the spontaneity" during the scenes. "Somebody saying, ‘Do this, put your hands there, which you touch his thing,’” he added.
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Bean said, "I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise."
Compared the love scenes today with the one he shot with Joely Richardson in 'Lady Chatterley' (1993), the actor said, "Lady Chatterley was spontaneous," adding, "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 spoke about television companies and advertisers censoring sex scenes. Remembering one scene from the television series 'Snowpiercer' on TNT, when he had an intimate scene with his co-star Lena Hall and a mango, Bean said, "I think they cut a bit out actually." He further stated, "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."
When asked whether intimacy coordinators protect actors amid the ongoing #MeToo movement, Bean said, “I suppose it depends on the actress,” adding that Hall was “up for anything” because of her cabaret background.