Sean Bean has seen and done it all in Hollywood – from playing Boromir in Lord of the Rings and Ned Stark in Game of Thrones, to featuring in Bond films and Tom Clancy movies. Even now, at 63 years of age, he’s starring an Snowpiercer. An absolute certified legend of the game.
This means he’s also done his fair share of sex scenes. Unfortunately, he’s sparked some backlash following a recent interview with The Times in which he said intimacy coaches (introduced following the #MeToo movement to protect actresses and keep everything above board during sex scenes) end up ruining the magic of the scenes and reduce them to a ‘technical exercise’. Here’s what he said in full:
‘I should imagine it slows down the thrust of it. Ha, not the thrust, that’s the wrong word. It would spoil the spontaneity.
It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things – somebody saying, “Do this, put your hand there, while you touch his thing…”
‘I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise.’
Actresses like Jameela Jamil (who else?) and Rachel Zegler hit back at Bean’s comments:
Fortunately for Bean, there were also actresses coming to his defence. One being his Snowpiercer co-star who has first-hand experience filming a sex scene with Sean Bean (lucky girl):
Overall you’d have to say it’s a good thing having these people on set to ensure nothing untoward happens, especially in a place as notoriously seedy as Hollywood (and even though there are already dozens of people there watching and filming). But we have to cut Sean Bean some slack here. He’s a 60+ old school legend who has filmed plenty of sex scenes without being monitored by some ‘intimacy coach’ watching for signs of depravity. The man’s a master of his craft! After such a long and epic career, of course he’s not going to enjoy the idea of being over-directed while pretending to have sex with an actress.
In fairness to Jameela Jamil and Rachel Zegler, it doesn’t sound like they were attacking him personally, but rather just criticising the things he said in that interview. It just sucks that the outrage police are having a go at him on Twitter in the name of social justice. Then again, he’s never gonna see all that, is he?
For news that Beyoncé was running #MeToo checks on collaborators for her new album, click HERE. Can never be too careful these days.
