That made for some amusing moments with body doubles and stand-ins. Who will be ‘Bridgerton’ Season 2’s hot guy after Regé-Jean Page? “Everyone was in masks, shields and gowns, and people were chosen based on who they could perform with in their bubble,” Hudecki recalled. Shot in October 2020 amidst the pandemic, actors were in clinical PPE. In every room they enter, there are sex acts of all kinds being simulated and naked bodies splayed about.īut the filming was anything but titillating.
Perhaps the raciest scene in “Sex/Life” is a suburban sex party attended by Billie and her husband Cooper, played by Mike Vogel. “Those are the things that make it look sexy.” Actors Mike Vogel and Sarah Shahi have a steamy scene in “Sex/Life” COURTESY OF NETFLIX “They did the coital alignment technique really well and they were breathing together,” she said. Hudecki said she was really impressed with Shahi and her co-stars’ performances. “We’re seeing better sex scenes,” said Alicia Rodis, a pioneering intimacy coordinator who worked on HBO’s “ The Deuce.”Īctor Murray Barlett, smug resort manager Armond (left), performs a raunchy sex act on his male co-star in “The White Lotus.” HBOĬoordinators typically rehearse sexy scenes with actors, who wear special padding to ensure no touching. After that taboo-shattering episode aired, Twitter lit up with shocked reactions.
Over the last year, the work of intimacy coordinators has been on full display in popular envelope-pushing shows like the Netflix romance fantasy “Bridgerton” and HBO’s social satire “ The White Lotus.” The former showcased lusty scenes that star Regé-Jean Page said shocked his family, while the latter had resort manager Armond (Murray Bartlett) in a graphic encounter with a surfer bellhop played by Lukas Gage.
“There were gaps in the industry that were being filled by really good directors or costumers but there was still no one really paying attention to these scenes in an exclusive way,” Hudecki said. The relatively new position, made more common in the era of #MeToo, has the coordinator serving as both advocate and choreographer on set, ensuring that actors feel safe and know precisely what to do with their bodies. In addition to more specific scripts, intimacy coordinators like Hudecki have also helped to work out the kinks in on-screen sex. Netflix is struggling to keep hot ‘Bridgerton’ sex off porn sites Showrunner Stacy Rukeyser said she and her writers were “very specific on the page” when penning such explicit, blushworthy scenes, which focus on female pleasure. There’s even a scene with Billie and her ex Brad (played by Adam Demos) engaging in typically taboo oral endeavors with chocolate sauce. Within the eight episodes of the show, which premiered in late June, there’s full-frontal male nudity, a well-attended suburban sex party and a montage of protagonist Billie, played by Sarah Shahi, being bent into nearly every position of the Kama Sutra. “In one episode is as much sex as you get in one season of most shows,” said Casey Hudecki, the intimacy coordinator for the series, which focuses on a wealthy married mother in stuffy Connecticut fantasizing about her sexcapades with a bad-boy ex.
In the Netflix series “ Sex/Life,” there’s so much flesh on display, one could mistake it for the Spice Channel of the ’90s.
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