The director of 'Bodies Bodies Bodies', Halina Reijn, emphasizes the importance of intimacy coordinators in creating safe and realistic sex scenes. She compares their role to stunt coordinators, ensuring actors are protected and the scenes are effectively executed. Reijn also discusses her commitment to creating a safe and comfortable environment for her actors, both physically and emotionally.
Writer-director Halina Reijn had help crafting the BDSM-flavored intimacy scenes from Lizzy Talbot, an intimacy coordinator who previously choreographed fight scenes. Talbot’s experience is particularly useful because in Reijn’s eyes, “A good intimacy coordinator is like a good stunt coordinator,” as, Reijn elaborated, “You can’t do a fight without a stunt coordinator. Your actors will get hurt, and it will look lame on camera. It’s the same with sex scenes .
It’s very, very useful to have someone who knows all the little tricks and makes everyone feel safe. Within the structure of a choreographed plan, the actors can.” She added, “Funny enough, the days with intimacy scenes are often the most clear. There are still nerves, but everybody comes to set super prepared.”Reijn says that having a background as an actor, “safety is my priority at all times” when she is in charge of her own sets as a director. (That extends beyond the actual sex scenes to the actors’ “emotional safety” of the rest of the film.) She herself has “experienced a lot of male directors sitting in a North Face jacket on a high chair while you’re crawling around on the floor,” she recalled. “I’ve always felt very unsafe and just embarrassed, to be honest with you. I felt like an open wound.”, including making sure the set itself—like the seedy motel that serves as the location for one of the characters’ first trysts—was clean. “Even though it looks dirty with stains on the carpet, I wanted everything to be clean and soft. Those are things people don’t think about. But how often I have crawled over floors in my acting career that were so dirty and gross…” she told. Those scenes were also meticulously planned for lighting and sound so only the director of photography needed to be in the room whileand Harris Dickinson acted. “That creates an intimacy. We choreographed it very, very clearly so that in the moment, they could let go and react to each other,” Reijn sai
INIMACY COORDINATOR SEX SCENES SAFETY ACTORS HALINA REIJN
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