The Affair EP Sarah Treem responds to Ruth Wilson exit controversy: 'I tried to protect her'
. She wrote, “We ran into a small portion of the crew of another TV show that shoots nearby and introduced ourselves. Within five minutes, a producer/director of that show had cornered Lena…The director asked Lena to have dinner alone the following night with an actress on the show he works on. Not because he thought they should meet, but because he wanted Lena to persuade the actress to ‘show her t–s, or at least some vag’ on TV. Surely Lena could make a compelling argument.
Treem then references the new character introduced in the fourth season, a veteran named Ben who was sober and impotent, but he felt a spark with Alison so he asked her out. “If you know anything about the tendencies of abusive men, that would be a big red flag. But Alison doesn’t,” Treem says. “All Alison knows is that she’s attracted to him. Over the course of her final season, she slowly starts to open up to him. She tells him about her past. About the loss of her son, about her affair.
“So, when it came time to end Alison’s story, I went back to her beginning. Back into a situation where a married man is projecting his fantasies onto her and she could potentially use sex to numb her pain,” Treem continues. “But this time, she chooses differently. She breaks up with him. He tries to force himself on her, but he’s still impotent. She fights him off and screams at him to get the hell out of her apartment.
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