Christina Ricci is happy with all changes in the Hollywood industry, including having the option to say “I am not going to be naked.”
The 43-year-old actor recently appeared on The View and was asked how film and television sets have changed over the years for young women.
“Us older ladies talk about it all the time. It’s amazing to see that they don’t necessarily have to go through the things we had to go through,” Entertainment Weekly reports Ricci as saying. “They’re able to say, ‘I don’t want to do this sex scene,’ ‘I’m not going to be naked.’ They can set boundaries for themselves that we were never allowed to do.”
Elaborating on how boundaries were violated, Ricci revealed she was once threatened with legal action for refusing to film a sex scene. “I remember once on a movie saying I wasn’t comfortable with something and they threatened to sue me if I didn’t do it,” she said of the incident in an interview last year, per Variety. “That would never happen now. I didn’t do it anyway. And they didn’t sue me.”
Echoing Ricci’s experience, Jane Fonda has also, in the past, admitted to feeling uncomfortable when shooting intimate scenes.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she was asked how intimacy coordinators could have made sex scenes more comfortable.
Now a fixture on film and TV sets following the #MeToo Movement, an intimacy coordinator acts as a connection between the actor and the production and helps the actor understand what’s expected of them “in hyper-exposed scenes and to give their informed and continued consent,” reads the guidelines by Screen Actors Guild.
“What a difference it would’ve made in terms of my comfort,” the two-time Oscar winner said. “I missed out on that one. It’s hard even to describe the difference when you’re the only (woman) on a set, literally the only.”
Meanwhile, Ricci is currently promoting her Emmy-nominated show YellowJackets, season 2 of which is set to premiere on March 24.
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