To do this, certain safeguards are in place so that no boundaries are broken for any individual actor doing some sort of intimate scene. One of the most common of these safeguards comes in the form of modesty garments, which cover an actor’s genitalia while they are engaged in an intimate scene that requires skin-to-skin contact.

However, it is sometimes hard to conceal these garments, depending on the cinematic framing of the scene. Even the most critically acclaimed works can slip up in this regard, and one of the most applauded films of the last year did just that.

 

Poor Things, the Emma Stone-led film that came out in December 2023, has one small mistake within it as it pertains to the use of a modesty garment. While it’s difficult to spot right away by an untrained eye, one intimacy coordinator pointed it out in a recent TikTok where she discussed the film’s mishap.

Jessica, who goes by the fitting name of @intimacycoordinator on TikTok, explained what situations called for a modesty garment in TV and film, as well as which ones don’t. She explained this by using one specific scene in Poor Things – timestamped at roughly 1:27:27 – as an example.

Because there was no potential for physical contact between the actors, the use of a modesty garment wasn’t necessary. However, Jessica then explains when the garment did become necessary and thus was accidentally visible to the viewer in the Golden Globe Award-winning film.

“When he climbs on top of her, in the corner of the screen, you can see just this corner of a modesty garment,” Jessica explains, physically showing the small area of the garment that is visible in the film.

She went on to explain that they likely cut in between these two moments to have the actors put on their modesty garments as the intensity of the scene increased and warranted their use by the two actors.

 

Jessica then elaborated further: “Anytime we’re doing simulated spicy time, we have to have some kind of padding in between actor’s genitals.”

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The intimacy coordinator, who was on set during the filming of Jenna Ortega’s x-rated scenes with Martin Freeman, has hit back at criticism.

People are so used to seeing Ortega as a teenager in certain roles, for example Netflix’s hit Wednesday, they’ve forgotten she is, in fact, 21 years of age.

To give social media users their dues, Freeman is a whole 31 years older, but let’s not forget here people, the pair are highly trained, professional and talented actors – who also had an intimacy coordinator to help them safely navigate the scenes. Catch the trailer here:

The x-rated scenes in the movie have faced backlash from viewers, with one X user saying: “This Jenna Ortega/Martin Freeman film is so gross! So, so, so, so gross!”

“I think I am finally done watching these age gap movies. They are all gross, and I am tired of it. No amount of Jenna Ortega or Martin Freeman could save this one for me,” another added.

However, the intimacy coordinator who was on set supporting Ortega and Freeman, has since responded to those who’ve called the x-rated scene ‘gross’.

 

If you’re not quite sure what the role of intimacy coordinator entails, as per the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) someone in the role is ‘an advocate, a liaison between actors and production…in regard to nudity and simulated 𝓈ℯ𝓍 and other intimate and hyper-exposed scenes’.

In an interview with Mail Online, Kristina Arjona responded to the negative reviews reassuring there were ‘many, many people throughout [the] process’ of filming the scene who engaged with Ortega ‘to make sure that it was consistent with what she was comfortable with’.

But how did people around the young actor help her navigate the intimate scene?

 

Well, Arjona explains they sit down with the actors and make sure to talk about the ‘level of nudity’ each party is happy to go with.

They also discuss the ‘simulated 𝓈ℯ𝓍 scenes’ – where the actors aren’t literally doing the business but very much look like they are. Items of clothing such as modesty sock – think back to Jason Momoa’s replacement in GOT – can be used to help maintain the idea of the actors being completely undressed, while allowing them to cover their private areas and remain as comfortable as possible if they’d rather not bear all.

The actors were given a written document two days before shooting the more x-rated scenes to sign, however, they’re allowed to ‘change their mind’ anytime, Arjona stresses.

And then, while filming, alongside keeping an eye on there being an ‘appropriate distance’ between the pair, Arjona says she always stays ‘hyper aware’ of all the members of talent involved in such a scene and ‘making sure [they’re] consistently’ being checked in with so their ‘boundaries’ are never ‘surpassed’.

She continues: “And again, making sure – especially with someone who’s significantly younger – that they are giving continuous consent.”

 

Alongside this, she says Ortega was ‘very determined and very sure of what she wanted to do’ in the scene, so part of her role is also to support ‘her decisions’.

The intimacy coordinator notes: “I adapt to whatever is the comfort level of my actors, especially on a production like this where there is a large age gap between the actors.”

UNILAD has contacted Jenna Ortega’s representatives for comment.

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The mom of an actress who engaged in a ‘messy’ real-life movie 𝓈ℯ𝓍 scene was left with concerns following her daughter’s performance.

Margo Stilley – who has since featured in 2008’s How to Lose Friends & Alienate People alongside Simon Pegg and Megan Fox – appeared in the erotic flick alongside actor Kieran O’Brien.

The 2004 flick followed a series of various intense 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual encounters between a British scientist (O’Brien) and an American exchange student Lisa (Stilley).

There is one scene where O’Brien’s character literally ejaculates, with the decision by filmmakers to have unsimulated 𝓈ℯ𝓍 scenes in the movie proving divisive.

 

In fact, the movie, which is titled 9 Songs, infamously held the title of the most 𝓈ℯ𝓍ually explicit mainstream films.

Stilley didn’t even want to be on the film’s credits originally, initially asking to be identified only as ‘Lisa’ (her character’s name) instead.

Following the release of 9 Songs, Stilley’s mother, Debbie Collins, had concerns over the growing controversy.

She asked: “Did she use her real name?

“I pray for her every day, twice a day.

“Everything has to be done in a 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual way these days.

“And I know what they can do in Hollywood; how they can take someone’s head and put it on another person’s body.

“She had very deep faith in God.”

 

Amid all the criticism, Stilley defended the 2004 film in an interview with the Guardian that year.

She said: “It isn’t shocking. If you know you are going to watch a film like this, it’s not abrasive. It’s normal 𝓈ℯ𝓍 that everyone has, not crazy stuff.

“I’m surprised [by the controversy], and even more by the fact that I’ve brought most of it on myself.”

Unfortunately, the actress has revealed she endured a lot of abuse since 9 Songs released.

According to Stilley, she had people ‘shouting abuse at her’ at press conferences and calling her a ‘wh**e’ and a ‘s*ut’ and asking her ‘how could I do it’.

 

She told The Irish Examiner in 2008: “You’d think I invented 𝓈ℯ𝓍! I got told I was a whore and a sl*t and how could I do it.

“And what kind of role model did I think I was giving young women?”

She added: “It was a film about love and 𝓈ℯ𝓍. It wasn’t porn. I mean, I had 𝓈ℯ𝓍 with my boyfriend last night and that wasn’t porn.”

9 Songs is 20 years old this year with many reminiscing on the raunchy flick.

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When it comes to horror films, those that come to mind are classics like Scream, Halloween, and Nightmare on Elm Street.

However, according to ranker.com, none of these films were the top choice for horror fans when it came to decide the horror film with the most shocking opening.

This one film starts off gruesomely and well, it only goes up… or down from there I suppose.

 

And it is all because the opening opens with a very memorable and gore-filled opening and was ranked as the most shocking horror opening on ranker.com.

This is 2002’s Ghost Ship, with a cast including Karl Urban of Lord of the Rings and The Boys fame. The film follows a crew of marine salvagers as they comb through a haunted ship which has gone adrift in the Bering Straight.

Haunting stuff indeed.

However, it’s not the actual salvage and inevitable supernatural encounters on the ship that make it stick out, but the opening.

This opening shows how one moment can be filmed in incredible detail in a movie. Take a look:

Sure enough, while everyone is right in the swing of things a wire cable snaps.

There’s a moment as it whips through the entire crowd, taking the heads of a bunch of flowers first, leaving us with the sight of the cable covered in blood.

The movie seems frozen in time as the horrified guests contemplate what happened. Then, one by one they start to literally fall apart after the wire bisects them.

 

Limbs drop off, top halves separate from bottom halves. Only a little girl survives, and that’s because she wasn’t tall enough to be hit by the wire.

The idea is pretty horrifying in itself, but the way it’s done and the effects it shows, definitely crosses over into the camper side of horror as well.

Something that is so over the top that it is almost too ridiculous to be actually scary.

However, no matter how you feel about it, thinking its brilliant or terrible, I think most people can agree it is certainly memorable.

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It’s probably not two people going at it in a dark corner, is it? No one wants to imagine Hagrid or Professor McGonagall in those kinds of compromising positions.

But while Harry Potter isn’t known for being an explicit film series, fans are convinced they’ve found a ‘𝓈ℯ𝓍 scene’ in one of the movies.

The scene has been spotted in the third instalment of the franchise, 2004’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and if you’re not someone who sticks around to watch the credits, you might have missed it altogether.

The credits for the film feature an animation of the Marauders Map; a magical parchment introduced for the first time in the third film.

The map allows the user to find out the location of people in Hogwarts, showing their footsteps as they move through the castle.

 

The document came in handy for Harry, Ron and Hermione in the movie, though it wasn’t Peter Pettigrew we were following in the credits.

The footsteps featured as the credits rolled weren’t actually named at all, which is probably how the creators managed to get away with including a couple of more suspicious footsteps in one corner of the map.

While some footsteps stroll around innocently, the credits feature two sets of prints which aren’t moving, and seem to be positioned notably close together.

With the two pairs of feet facing towards one another, it’s hard to ignore the scene it implies.

 

Harry Potter fans took to X to share their thoughts after a clip of the scene went viral, with one post reading: “In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, in the credits sequence, you can see two people having 𝓈ℯ𝓍 on the bottom left of the marauders map.”

One viewer said the scene was ‘weird’ considering the film largely focuses on 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren, though other people argued the feet might not indicate 𝓈ℯ𝓍 at all.

“These are teenagers at school. They are snogging. It’s Harry Potter, not Pornhub,” one person wrote.

After the clip went viral, Rus Wetherell, who designed the end credits for the Prisoner of Azkaban, spoke out about what was really going on in Hogwarts.

Wetherell told the Huffington Post: “We’ve all been kids, we’ve all been in school and stuff … It was just a sort of little peck on the cheek.”

Wetherell went on to express belief that the couple’s feet ‘are in an embrace’ and ‘not having 𝓈ℯ𝓍 as everyone says’.

If you say so, Wetherell!