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Actors get really spooked when it comes to intimacy in a scene, even kissing, he wrote.

The actors are not robots on a Toyota assembly line.

But just how do different filmmakers approach putting intimacy on film?

In lots of different ways, is the answer… We showed the girls what we were planning to do.

We explained to them at the beginning in the auditions and explained what we were going to do.

You storyboard it to show exactly what you were planning.

And if you look at that scene, you dont see much.

But filming such an intimate moment wasnt easy.

A tense shoot all round, and not an easy one…

In one scene, Michael Fassbender, Calamity Chang, and DeeDee Luxe meet up for a declothed conversation.

We wouldve done it anyway, because thats what we signed up for.

Wright thus wanted some nudity in his film, but male and female.

We were an equal opportunities employer, he told us, nudity for everyone!

So it ended up that there arent any bare breasts in the final cut ofTormented.

That didnt make things less tricky when it came to the sex scenes themselves though.

So you had the weird scenario of blocking a scene with two people who utterly despise one another.

There was no trust.

We had to choreograph it in painful detail, almost like we were negotiating a legal contract.

It was terrifically unsexy and strange.

In the end the scene turned out well, I thought.

Maybe the hatred gave it an edge, it played as a kind of edgy, animal thing.

Or maybe they hated each other because there was sexual attraction underlying it.

Wright made one further point.

Throughout the movie everybody used a condom.

They wanted careers, they wanted to party.

This was widely misinterpreted.

People thought it was because it was a BBC film, my hand had been forced by the producers.

I wanted to see the bodies.

But for Judd Apatow, directing was about preparation that soon went out of the window.

Theres only so many places you could put the camera for that activity.

He added that Im very shy.

We did The40-Year-Old Virgin; there was a speed-dating scene.

Lets venture to use that.

And so the element of hypocrisy is gone.

I want to discuss this all before, sitting in the trailer.

There should be no discussion on the set when people take their clothes off, he added.

Marc Forster directed Halle Berry to an Oscar win in the dramaMonsters Ball.

Through this, they express everything that has been repressed for years.

The full article is worth a look,here.

Part Deux, for good measure).

Director Roger Donaldson recalled that the leading pair werent the warmest of co-stars.

When they were playing opposite each other, they were extraordinarily electric, he recalled toPremiere.

And when they were off-screen, they were two totally different people.

And then Linehan gave her a very specific piece of direction that transformed the scene.

He asked her could you make the noises that you might make getting into a hot bath.

And that was it, she said.

you’ve got the option to see her tell the tale right here… A pity, as like most Joe Carnahan projects, its worth digging out.

Winterbottom, for the sex scenes themselves, cleared the set down to the bare minimum of personnel.

Just the actors, director, cameraman and sound recordist were allowed when the footage was being capture.

Stilley gave an interesting interview about the making of the film toThe Guardian,here.