Alicia Vikander Has Felt Unprotected Filming Nude Scenes: ‘I Should’ve Been Looked After’
variety.comZack Sharf Alicia Vikander opened up to Harper’s Bazaar about the importance of intimacy coordinators on set, revealing she has felt unprotected on sets in the past while doing nude scenes.
The Oscar winner said that intimacy coordinators “should have existed at the beginning of my career,” and she described one instance where an actor performed a nude scene and then was left naked on set “for a couple hours” because no one showed up with a robe.“The only thing that can’t be improvised is an intimate scene — you have to make choreography and stick to it,” Vikander said. “It’s the worst thing ever to do those scenes.
I am very comfortable with my body and I’ve done quite a bit of nudity and sex scenes, but it’s never easy.” “I’ve been in situations that were not fine, where I didn’t feel I was protected,” Vikander added. “[One time during filming] everyone was busy doing their own thing and, in the middle, you have an actor who sits there naked for a couple of hours.
And someone is supposed to arrive with a robe, and they don’t. It comes afterwards, [the knowledge that] that was not right.
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