It would’ve been nice for Kate Winslet to have an intimacy coordinator back in the day
Kate Winslet wishes she had an intimacy coordinator "every single time I had to do a love scene or be partially naked or even a kissing scene"
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The industry’s approach to the craft of intimate scenes is changing, and there are mixed feelings about it from veteran actors. Add Kate Winslet, whose breakthrough role in Titanic contained some significant nude and sex scenes, to those advocating for the practice of intimacy coordinators. “I would have benefited from an intimacy coordinator every single time I had to do a love scene or be partially naked or even a kissing scene,” she says in a New York Times profile. “It would have been nice to have had someone in my corner, because I always had to stand up for myself.”
To this day, Winslet typically “would rather suffer in silence” than be known as “that complainer” on set, so it sounds like she rarely stood up for herself, particularly as an up-and-coming starlet. But there are lots of things she wishes she could have said: “I don’t like that camera angle. I don’t want to stand here full-frontal nude. I don’t want this many people in the room. I want my dressing gown to be closer. Just little things like that,” she shares. “When you’re young, you’re so afraid of pissing people off or coming across as rude or pathetic because you might need those things. So learning to have a voice for oneself in those environments was very, very hard.”
If being thrown into the deep end (literally, when it comes to Titanic) helped The Regime star learn to stand up for herself, so did “experiencing huge amounts of judgment, persecution, all this bullying” from the media. (She reveals suffering from an eating disorder amidst the scrutiny of her early fame.) Now, as a seasoned professional, she’s not only in a position to protect herself, but others too. As both star and producer of Mare Of Easttown, Winslet apparently “sat in the trunk of a car where the then-19-year-old Angourie Rice would be filming a kissing scene” in order to “personally pass on notes from the director coming in through a radio.” That’s being the change you’d like to see in the world!
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“and there are mixed feelings about it from veteran actors”
I don’t like this phrasing. It’s making it sound like there’s reasonable disagreement among reasonable minds here when there’s not. The only “mixed feelings” have been from creepy old dudes.
And Jennifer Aniston
Nah, what she said wasn’t the same. She just said when she was offered one she didn’t know what it was, and that she felt comfortable on her particular set with her particular co-star and production team. She didn’t say anything was wrong with intimacy coordinators in general or that she had any sort of mixed feelings about them.
Works for me.In a fight scene, does the director just say “Okay, fuckos, go on and fight?” No? Same thing here.
If you told me that’s how they shot the fight scene in They Live I’d believe you.
Keith David and Roddy Piper worked out the fight choreography for that scene in They Live themselves. Geniuses
It’s definitely helpful when a fight scene is being undertaken by athletes, particularly ones who already know how to “work.”Alternative was the fight with The Punks in The Warriors, which took three days (IIRC) to film.
There were lots of cuts in that scene, many of which included close ups of action that was previously shown in the background
Because you’re too stupid to recognize blatantly, obviously choreographed fight scenes?
Yes, they do.
This is the best acted and best choreographed Steven Seagal thing ever.
Even better than the movie where he is “lowered like a drawbridge, fully clothed, onto a naked woman”?
Now I’m picturing a Steven Seagal version of Dracula rising from the coffin but continuing through a full 180 degrees of arc
She is a grown woman, open you mouth when it happening. . not 20 some years later.
Hmm – does this triangulate with:https://www.avclub.com/christopher-eccleston-false-groping-accusation-1851185949
Even if, she was only 20 when Jude was shot and there were some EXTREMELY graphic elements in that film for a 20 year-old to play, opposite a costar 16 years older than her. Her age was a primary reason why Kenneth Branaugh didn’t want to cast her for Frankenstein, since he felt a teenager would have been too young for some of the more graphic elements of the story.And that film released a year before Titanic, which was massively tame by comparison (though James Cameron famously mocked her for her weight on set).
God, James Cameron is such a douche.
Hopefully Melanie Lynskey did not get too handsy with her on Heavenly Creatures
Shortly after Titanic, I remember reading her saying that she really wasn’t comfortable doing nude scenes… then she kept getting nude in nearly every movie. I always wondered why; I guess now I know.
“I don’t like this camera angle.” Ok, file that away in you’re the actor, not the director.