What about married actors and love scenes? - 12/05/08 10:39 AM
This post is inspired from Maribel4’s thread”Disgusted with celebrities...”.
That thread focused on the acceptance for betrayal in media provided the betrayal can be masked as “love”. An example is: ”The Bridges of Madison County”. And there are many others.
My focus differ: In these films I see married actors doing nude love scenes with other married actors. And they are not M to each other. When watching these films I am not able to see them only as the characters in the story. We may see characters, but in reality they are actors that afterwards will return home to their S and act as if noting happened. I have done quite a “research” on the internet, searching phrases like “married actor in love scene”, “actor in nude scene” and many other variants. There is lots of stuff out there on this topic.
The pages I found often were laying smoke screens to reduce the significance of what actually happened in the studio: The setup surrounding the scene, with camera-crew, directors, the heat of the lights, the embarrassment, all factors affecting the actors to make the scene weird and removing the sexual arousal and the emotional connection.
The other way to minimize the significance is to emphasize the professionalism of the actors. As such it is not the actor that acts. The actor gives credibility and life to the character. “They probably do not even like the other actor”.
Apparently journalists are fond of asking questions about the intimate scenes when the actors are interviewed. The answers are typical “it felt very weird” or something like that. Everyone seems eager to signal that it meant nothing. Nothing really happened…
But, we se time and again that these actors brake up from their previous M and end up with the OP (the other actor). And we have a famous statement from Alfred Hitchcock (The one with horror films) that these scenes very often later are followed up in the privacy of the trailers (in witch the actors live on location).
And despite all the talk about the professionalism, there seems to be very much tolerance in the industry towards non-professional behavior. This is apparently an industry that fully accepts infidelity from colleagues. And everyone seems to participate in laying smoke screens to reduce the impacts on the families affected. The terms “professionalism”, and “only acting” are frequently used.
To be fair, there are also actors that make the stand: “No more nude scenes for me”. (Brad Pitt).
I think that for a M’ed actor to engage in such scenes is infidelity. Presence or absence of emotions is in my opinion just a smoke screen. Whether or not there are emotions involved, the M wows is broken. There is no special M ceremony for actors. They like every one else have wowed to be totally exclusively with their S. No amount of professionalism can change that.
I also believe that such scenes are not an essential part of the films. It is possible to create a credible love story without the audience forcing themselves on to (or being forced into) the privacy of the bedroom. And we owe the actors not to be forced to pay this price in order to have a profession.
What would you think if your S were an actor?
That thread focused on the acceptance for betrayal in media provided the betrayal can be masked as “love”. An example is: ”The Bridges of Madison County”. And there are many others.
My focus differ: In these films I see married actors doing nude love scenes with other married actors. And they are not M to each other. When watching these films I am not able to see them only as the characters in the story. We may see characters, but in reality they are actors that afterwards will return home to their S and act as if noting happened. I have done quite a “research” on the internet, searching phrases like “married actor in love scene”, “actor in nude scene” and many other variants. There is lots of stuff out there on this topic.
The pages I found often were laying smoke screens to reduce the significance of what actually happened in the studio: The setup surrounding the scene, with camera-crew, directors, the heat of the lights, the embarrassment, all factors affecting the actors to make the scene weird and removing the sexual arousal and the emotional connection.
The other way to minimize the significance is to emphasize the professionalism of the actors. As such it is not the actor that acts. The actor gives credibility and life to the character. “They probably do not even like the other actor”.
Apparently journalists are fond of asking questions about the intimate scenes when the actors are interviewed. The answers are typical “it felt very weird” or something like that. Everyone seems eager to signal that it meant nothing. Nothing really happened…
But, we se time and again that these actors brake up from their previous M and end up with the OP (the other actor). And we have a famous statement from Alfred Hitchcock (The one with horror films) that these scenes very often later are followed up in the privacy of the trailers (in witch the actors live on location).
And despite all the talk about the professionalism, there seems to be very much tolerance in the industry towards non-professional behavior. This is apparently an industry that fully accepts infidelity from colleagues. And everyone seems to participate in laying smoke screens to reduce the impacts on the families affected. The terms “professionalism”, and “only acting” are frequently used.
To be fair, there are also actors that make the stand: “No more nude scenes for me”. (Brad Pitt).
I think that for a M’ed actor to engage in such scenes is infidelity. Presence or absence of emotions is in my opinion just a smoke screen. Whether or not there are emotions involved, the M wows is broken. There is no special M ceremony for actors. They like every one else have wowed to be totally exclusively with their S. No amount of professionalism can change that.
I also believe that such scenes are not an essential part of the films. It is possible to create a credible love story without the audience forcing themselves on to (or being forced into) the privacy of the bedroom. And we owe the actors not to be forced to pay this price in order to have a profession.
What would you think if your S were an actor?