Penn Badgley asked for no sex scenes in YOU Season 4

[RAMROD 105,062]

Because what, he is the type that easiky fall for someone if/when he does? Hmmmmm 

[Flippy 11,829]

1 hour ago, NATAH said:

i mean the only sex scene that had me feel something was the jon snow + dany scene cus his ass was ROUND but other than that, they're so tired

Thanks for the info

[Eido 3,641]

Note to everyone : if it were an actress asking for that, the producers would be found laughing really hard 

but good for him

also might have been his wife asking for that 

[Alannah 2,949]

2 hours ago, FfFfFfFF said:

I think it will be intersting to see how the conversation about actors and sex scenes will evolve in the future. Especially in light of contemporary ideas about consent...

Does an actor give an implicit consent for filming sex scene when applying to a role? Can that actor remove his consent during the filming process? Can a company demand him to play the sex scene or otherwise be fired? Could this be seen as coercion of blackmail and/or a lesser form of sexual harrasment? To what extend actors rent their body up during the filming? etc etc

This is exactly why intimacy coordinators are so vital for productions! And not even just for sex scenes, consent also means fight choreo, blocking, and just general touch. A good, respectable production will always work scene to scene with their performers and always keep their consent and comfort a priority. There's an intimacy coordinator on TikTok who delves into what her work entails, and she had an example of an actress not being comfortable with an or*l scene (her receiving). They ended up finding a work around where she was comfortable, but the actors were positioned in a way that she didn't have to have someone between her legs. Also, 99% of nudity is an illusion. Modesty garments and prosthetics ensure that no one is truly naked and can hide natural arousal and the like. A company with union representation cannot blackmail a performer in that way. Maybe years ago, but the inclusion of intimacy coordinators and general legal advocates keeps this from happening. Ideally. 

[Sherry 4,714]

1 hour ago, NATAH said:

i mean the only sex scene that had me feel something was the jon snow + dany scene cus his ass was ROUND but other than that, they're so tired

The Gaga and Adam scene from house of coochie is just 

[LaLuna 12,732]

Good for him. I honestly don't even enjoy sex scenes, most of the time they're completely gratuitous.

If I want to watch people f*** for no damn reason, I'll just watch p0rn 

 

[Killa 15,923]

Hes reasoning is probably just half baked. He most likely doesnt want to do sex scenes. 
and do you really need them. Its not about acting or not, the thing many actors have to spend só much time naked and making out that theyre almost **** stars. Hollywood depends too much on nudity and intimate moments that are often not necessary

[Controversiaga 9,494]

I don’t think sex scenes contribute much to a story usually anyways.  They rarely ever further the plot 

[Future Lovers 6,552]

5 hours ago, FfFfFfFF said:

Does an actor give an implicit consent for filming sex scene when applying to a role? Can that actor remove his consent during the filming process? Can a company demand him to play the sex scene or otherwise be fired? Could this be seen as coercion of blackmail and/or a lesser form of sexual harrasment? To what extend actors rent their body up during the filming? etc etc

Does an actor give an implicit consent for filming sex scene when applying to a role?
No, they give explicit consent. Actors are informed up front about all sex scenes and scenes that require nudity. It will not be sprung on them in the middle of production, they are informed in the auditioning process or when they're offered the role if there is no audition. At this point, they're free to either negotiate changes to the scene or decline the role.

Can that actor remove his consent during the filming process?
Yes they can. If they do, they can work with the set's intimacy coordinator to either rechoreograph the scene or they can discuss with production the use of a body double. 

Can a company demand him to play the sex scene or otherwise be fired?
They can try but this opens them up to a lawsuit that the actor will almost certainly win, even if they signed the contract ahead of time. 

Could this be seen as coercion of blackmail and/or a lesser form of sexual harrasment?
If they're threatened into it, yes, it can and will be. This is why there are intimacy coordinators on set. To not just ensure the safety and consent of all actors involved, but to act as a middle person between an actor and a production crew. They would intervene before it got to this point in most scenarios, and if they didn't, then they will also be held responsible in any legal action taken. 

To what extend actors rent their body up during the filming?
They can do as much or as little as they want to do. At the end of the day, if they say no then it's a no and any production studio who doesn't take no for an answer will not get away with it for long. Acting unions, intimacy coordinators, and studio HR departments don't take this lightly in the wake of the Me Too movement. Performing sex scenes on a set today is safer than it ever has been and there is a much more open dialogue between production and actors when it comes to them. 

It is important to remember that sex scenes are not open season like they used to be. The actors are not completely naked (if there is any nudity at all, there will be additional protections in place for the performer and they will not be completely naked during the shoot no matter what unless the scene explicitly calls for it in which case there will be arrangements made ahead of time for how to approach this), they're making limited actual physical contact, all performers must provide explicit consent both ahead of time and during the shoot, that consent can be withdrawn at any time, and there are sexual health professionals on set at all times to ensure that all performers remain safe and comfortable through the entire duration of filming these scenes. 

[27monster27 11,580]

For me personally I say each to their own. If he doesn't want to then that's his thing. If someone else would do it then that's there thing. I personally don't see too much of an issue.

[Meat 18,962]

Good for him. On another note, Is it just me  or is GenZ actually less sex positive than the previous generation? 

[androiduser 7,438]

36 minutes ago, Meat said:

Good for him. On another note, Is it just me  or is GenZ actually less sex positive than the previous generation? 

I think Gen Z is more sex positive but less tolerant of exploitation

[Togekiss 2,354]

4 hours ago, outlander said:

Good… you dont need that “technique” to tell a goddamn story 

The irony of your username 

[Meat 18,962]

2 hours ago, androiduser said:

I think Gen Z is more sex positive but less tolerant of exploitation

From what I’ve seen on twitter, kids these days are grossed out by sexual expression. For example, I saw a tweet dragging Madonna for posing naked in the sex book and it had a lot of likes. There’s a lot of similar examples. 

[Future Lovers 6,552]

7 minutes ago, Meat said:

From what I’ve seen on twitter, kids these days are grossed out by sexual expression. For example, I saw a tweet dragging Madonna for posing naked in the sex book and it had a lot of likes. There’s a lot of similar examples. 

Twitter and TikTok are a bad representation of Gen Z for this very reason. 

Social media is a big echo chamber that amplifies a lot of half-baked and ill informed takes. A lot of the Gen Z you see on social media have gotten their information about how the world works through social media rather than experience, so their view naturally is tainted. 

But there are a great many of us, more than what is present on Twitter, who're not chronically online and are incredibly sex positive. We're pushing hard for sex work to be legitimized, trying to protect spaces like OnlyFans from celebrity exploitation so people who use it as their actual work can continue to be successful, normalizing conversations about and depictions of healthy sex, and pushing hard for more extensive sexual education. 

I promise you we don't claim the Gen Z who're so vocal on social media. They work against everything that we as a whole generation are trying to accomplish. Thankfully, they're a subset of this generation, they're just chronically online so they appear to have a bigger platform than they actually do.