Just dance 2020 behind the scenes12/24/2023 Only once they've had that conversation, will I speak to the actors and go, "Great, you know the scene, you know what's wanted? Now what are you happy with? What are any concerns? What are you happy with nudity-wise?" I'm checking all of that out. I'm going to serve your vision and honor exactly what you want." In light of that, I always say the director speaks to the actors first about the scene so that it's really clear. On Normal People, before I met Lenny apparently he had the idea that sometimes stunt coordinators come in and they're like, "Okay, I've seen this moment so we'll throw them over the sofa and then we'll hang from the chandeliers." He was saying, "Is that what you're going to be like?" and I'm going, "No, I'm going to listen to you. The next bit is that I always want to be serving the director's vision. If you're an actor, you should be brave and do any intimate content." The amount of times people have come to workshops and said that it's the actor who's flagged something like, "Hold on a minute, shouldn't we pause and talk about this? Shouldn't we create a structure?" And then they were the ones that are made to feel unprofessional for asking for that. The statements before Weinstein were, "Oh, well, if you're an actor, you should be able to be naked. When I started teaching the work, the narrative I was inviting the actors to bring is: "I, as a professional, want to give you, the director, the best of my acting skills to serve the writing and the intimate content and the way to do this, is to work professionally." But at that time that narrative really was on its head. When I started talking about this post-Weinstein in 2017, I was like, "I hope in five years." and here we are just a couple of years down the line and the shift is just fantastic. You'd do exactly the same with the intimate content so that it just becomes commonplace. If you read a script and earmark a dance, you're going to get a choreographer. We're inviting producers to do this right from the get-go. Of course, at the beginning, I had no idea that I'd end up helping to create a role of a practitioner that's now known as the intimacy coordinator. Just like a choreographer, that practitioner puts clear choreography into place and brings in techniques. Consent is needed both for touch and nudity, and of simulated sexual content. And, as with any choreographed dance, you need a specialist practitioner to help everybody talk about it properly and professionally and not gloss over consent. Then there's the realization of, actually, no, people are vulnerable. There was this sense that, well, everybody does sex, so we don't need to teach technique. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just like a waltz, a sex scene is also a body dance and just like a fight, there's a risk and the risk is it makes someone vulnerable about being naked or being touched in places that aren't suitable. Or if we're going to put swords in someone's hands, of course, people don't just know how to do sword play, we're going to need a practitioner. ITA O'BRIEN: Think about it this way, if you're reading a script and there's a waltz, you realize people don't necessarily know how to waltz, so we need a specialist choreographer to teach that.
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