Intimacy Coordinator Tells Us How Actors Stop Themselves From Getting Aroused During Steamy Sex Scenes
Intimacy Coordinator Tells Us How Actors Stop Themselves From Getting Aroused During Steamy Sex Scenes
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00:00In this week's Ask Us, we had to know, how do actors stop themselves from getting aroused
00:06during steamy scenes?
00:07The racy moments in shows like Challengers and Outlander have made us wonder about this
00:12very important question, so we checked in with Intimacy Coordinator Brooke M. Hanney,
00:17who has worked on Elizabeth, Mayor of Kingstown and Harlem.
00:21Brooke also recently wrote the Intimacy Coordinator's guidebook, Specialties for Stage and Screen.
00:27Brooke told us,
00:28"...Here's the thing.
00:29This isn't actually very common.
00:31We're at work, right?
00:32With the lights bearing down, microphones, a couple of cameras in your face, Director
00:37DP, which is the Director of Photography, and other necessary crew watching on monitors,
00:43it's just not that sexy.
00:45However, sometimes bodies have physiological responses that are outside of our control.
00:50When that does happen, I tell the actor to do a few push-ups or some jumping jacks.
00:55That moves the blood to a different location, and we're all good."
00:58Well, who knew?
01:00Check back every week for another Ask Us, and email us at askusatusmagazine.com with
01:06all of your burning entertainment questions.