"Being 19, walking around without my underwear on – like, are you kidding me? How did I let that happen?" Seyfried said. "Oh, I know why: I was 19 and I didn't want to upset anybody, and I wanted to keep my job. That's why."
She added that she came out of the pre-#MeToo era "pretty unscathed."
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Intimacy coordinators – professionals who help choreograph intimate scenes between actors — have only become commonplace on some film sets in recent years. Several actors have recently spoken up about the change and how it has made them more comfortable filming sex scenes or nudity.
"It would inhibit me more because it's drawing attention to things," Bean said. "Somebody saying, 'Do this, put your hands 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."
"West Side Story" star Rachel Zegler, "The Good Place" actor Jameela Jamil, and even Bean's "Snowpiercer" costar Lena Hall responded to Bean's comments, defending the use of intimacy coordinators.
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Hall, who was mentioned by Bean in the Sunday Times interview as someone who was "up for anything" due to her theater experience, clarified on Twitter that she felt "comfortable" around Bean but she had no issue asking for an intimacy coordinator if she ever felt "weird, gross, over exposed etc."
"Just because I am in theater (not cabaret, but I do perform them every once in a while) does not mean that I am up for anything," Hall wrote. "Seriously does depend on the other actor, the scene we are about to do, the director, and whatever crew has to be in there to film it."
The actor continued: "I do feel that intimacy coordinators are a welcome addition to the set and think they could also help with the trauma experienced in other scenes."
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