PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Lorraine Toussaint welcomes the idea of intimacy coaches on television and film sets, even if the actress wasn’t quite sure what the job entails.
Informed that such coaches help stage scenes involving sex that are respectful to the actors, the 58-year-old star of NBC’s upcoming series “The Village” told a TV critics meeting on Tuesday that she was forced to be her own advocate when no one else was around.
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“I’ve been a bit of a Nazi about making sure that it’s a closed set and that includes even sound,” Toussaint said. “It is highly choreographed. It is highly rehearsed. And then everyone has to go away.”
Toussaint joined Jennifer Carpenter of new series “The Enemy Within,” Retta of “Good Girls” and Susan Kelechi Watson of “This Is Us” in agreeing that they’re seeing changes in on-set culture since the emergence of the #MeToo movement.
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