#like i'm assuming they'd be very aware of the camera position lighting what the shot will look like etc the whole time?

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@lamorenareina thank you so much for this insight! I did know that intimacy coordinators are fairly new and that they did decide to have one on towl after some debate. I've also heard some awful horror stories about actresses having bad experiences with sex scenes in the past before ICs were a thing, which is why some people (rightly) insist on it. it makes SO much sense that some actors would be left to their own devices and that it would vary set to set.

as others have said: I could never be an actress lol but it's a really interesting craft to learn about, so thank you!

not to keep harping on but it’s also crazy how they just set the cameras up and said go for it. did no one write anything into the script for them to actually follow and call it a day? also amc is never into s*x scenes in the first place and it’s just not a twd thing either their other shows also don’t feature explicit scenes like that so why would they go and do all that extra-ness knowing damn well it won’t be useable. enough time has passed tho i need nicotero to upload it to youtube so we can see if they’re really that bad enough to keep ‘em locked up for so long

you know, I'm not sure I know enough about how sex scenes usually work to say what is or isn't typical in terms of how much is scripted? I know danai said the scene she wrote for 1x04 was extremely scripted, and usually when I hear actors talk about sex scenes they say how awkward and technical and very unsexy they are. I also know nicotero did something similar for their bedroom scene in 9x01 - basically set the camera up near them and had the crew back up and let them do their thing. so that seems to be his ~style if nothing else. as for sex scenes on AMC, I'll have to take your word on that, although I definitely recall a sex scene from that show Preacher making the rounds a few years back, and I also have a vague and (unfortunate) memory of an abe/rosita scene that I feel might have been kinda explicit? I could be remembering it wrong though. I do remember richonne fans at the time being like well where's OUR version of that and tbh we didn't get it until towl 1x04, which is also weird. like, I remember feeling like everybody had some kind of sex scene except richonne

I'm sorry idk where I'm going with this except to say I don't know how the average sex scene is filmed but I do think it might be weird to a) improvise a sex scene at all and/or b) improvise it to the point where someone gets half naked lol but again, what the hell do I know. I would think they maybe negotiated that beforehand? if nothing else, I respect the dedication and admire the trust that was clearly present.

and we are never, ever, ever EVER seeing those tapes anon lol we just aren't. whether it's because we really truly can't because of the content or because nicotero is just kinda weird about them we may never know.