In
The Lord of the Rings
, he played Boromir.
In
Game of Thrones
, he was Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell.
The actor Sean Bean, probably especially during this second experience, had the opportunity to meet intimacy coordinators, these professionals responsible for supervising scenes of a sexual nature.
And to make sure that they cannot hit one or the other of the actors.
Asked in the
Times
, the Briton explained why their presence does not delight them.
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“They ruin any spontaneity (…) It inhibits me more because it draws attention to things. Someone says to you: 'Do this, put your hands there …'”
, explains the 63-year-old actor, whose character in
Game of Thrones
will not be present in the spin-off planned for the start of the school year.
“I think the natural behavior of lovers would be ruined by someone reducing it to a technical exercise,”
he continues.
It would therefore depend on the likelihood of the scenes played.
censorship on television
Sean Bean takes as proof of this the sequences – successful according to him – from the adaptation of
Lady Chatterley's Lover
, in which he played alongside actress Joely Richardson.
The 1993 film had no shortage of erotic passages.
“The shooting was spontaneous
, says Bean
.
It was a joy.
There was a good chemistry between us.
(...) She was married, I was married.
But we were following the story.
We were trying to portray the truth of what DH Lawrence wrote.”
Referring to a steamy scene from the Netflix series
Snowpiercer
, in which his character has a relationship with 40-year-old Lena Hall, Sean Bean storms:
“Often the best work you do is when you try to push the limits.
Whose very nature is experimental.
Generally, this work is censored, the television companies or the advertisers thinking that it is too much.
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Appearing only recently, the role of intimacy coordinator is now part of all series filming.
Sex Education,
The Bridgerton Chronicle
, Normal People
... all have used his services.
The shock of the Weinstein affair is of course not for nothing.
And, in England as in the United States, the profession is attracting more and more vocations, among both men and women.