Im talking about the ones where actors/actress are fully naked and you can see their asses.
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Stunt/actress here.
Some scenes call for what’s known as a “chastity pillow,” which is a thin layer of padding that acts as a barrier between the performers. Other sets use patches/stickers over female body parts and a sock type garment to cover male parts.
Additionally, there is an entire branch of direction called intimacy choreography that works with these types of scenes. Anything from a kiss to a rape scene can be choreographed and carefully directed to ensure the actors are safe, comfortable, and look good on camera. One of the last indie films I did called for a make out scene, all of which was delicately choreographed, including hand placement, angling, kissing, eye contact, and more. It’s a fascinating branch of direction.
Hi! Film producer here!
So when it comes to sex scenes, everything begins with actors consent of course and you have Sex Scene Coordinators who orchestrate a lot of that paperwork and so forth. However, when it comes down to actually shooting a sex scene there’s a lot that is considered for the actual image itself which involves actors, costume design, set design, and the sex scene coordinators.
More often than not, if we can cover an actor (by blankets, shot trickery with clever placed items/furniture, or simply clothing that fits the scene with action that implies sex) then we will do that first. This keeps actors clothed and comfortable, letting them focus on their characters in the scene and the story itself that’s being told.
Any nudity that is necessary in a shot can be broken down into ‘levels’.
Level 1- Fully clothed as mentioned before, including revealing clothes/underwear. No explicit nudity implied/required.
Level 2 – Actors only remove the clothing that is necessary to imply explicit nudity in the shot. E.G. Its a waist up shot, actors are clothed from the waist down in whatever they find comfortable.
Level 3 – Nude coloured underwear. Usually small briefs for a man, and a thong with a small bra or even pasties for a woman. Useful for shots that a far away or for obscured actors behind patterned glass or light fabrics.
Level 4 – Only the bits get covered. You have a little pull-string nude-coloured bag that a man puts his cock n balls in, and a sticky, nude ‘patch’ that covers the womans vagina or a even a very hairy merkin that covers the whole vagina. Depends on what’s necessary.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL AN ACTOR BE FULLY NUDE ON SET WITHOUT A LOT OF EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE, CONSENT, AND PAPERWORK.
Actors will only be nude for the shots where it’s 1000% necessary with clothes being taken off/put on between shot changes and lots of cover for between takes. This is also normally only seen by a bare bones crew as most actors ask for a ‘closed set’ when performing these scenes.
SOURCE: Am independant film producer.
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I was a producer for a short film with several naked scenes. Very graphic scenes as well. The script called for seing male genitalia, etc. We solved it with both actors being covered with a pouch of some sorts. Basically their private parts were covered, so there is no possibility of penetration. It was a combo of tape, and some type of bandage. The choreography was practiced before we shot it, so it would look realistic, and the actors wouldn’t do anything they were not comfortable with. We also had great actors that either had worked with the director previously, or we knew as coworkers.
There were also very limited people on set, basically the cam operator, director, actors, and make up(she was female, and the female actress asked that she was there).
As depicted in The Disaster Artist, the “gear” Tommy Wiseau is wearing in his sex scene was pretty close to it, and imagine what most movies use. In Nymphomaniac interestingly, most scenes were a combo of porn performers, and actors, and the exposed genitalia was CGI from the porn performers.
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There is nothing sexy about the sex scenes during the filming, just as you would never eat the burgers in a food commercial. What looks good on screen is not the same as what feels good in real life, whether you’re talking about mainstream movies or porn.
The best answer to your question is that it’s choreographed, just like a fight scene or a dance scene. There are specific angles that show or hide what the director wants (usually keeping in mind what is and isn’t allowed in each MPAA rating). In a typical scene where you show a close up of kissing, the actors are probably wearing clothes from the waist down. In fully nude scenes, the man will usually wear a “modesty pouch” (fun fact: in The Disaster Artist, James Franco was supposed to wear a modesty pouch but came out fully nude for his scene to intentionally disrupt the scene. Second fun fact: in Pulp Fiction, the dude raping Ving Rhames wore a Crown Royal bag because it was what they had on set ).
The actors and actresses who do agree to nude scenes (some don’t, and they use body doubles) do what they do in any acting scene. They hit their marks, they say their lines, they emote, they do it all over again for coverage. Usually the actors are professional and use some mouthwash before a kissing scene, although some intentionally eat onions or something to fuck with their co-stars.
As for how the stars deal with being aroused…they aren’t. Can you imagine being turned on while a dozen people around you are fiddling with lights and arguing over whether a dropped power strip should be picked up by the grip or the electric? The people who can do that have an entirely different skill set, and are in a different business. There’s very little overlap between the two, only about five people have ever done it. (There’s an entire documentary about how Ron Jeremy has been a background character in dozens of mainstream movies, but he’ll always be Ron Jeremy, porn star.)
Intimacy coordinators are becoming much more popular on sets! HBO has them for any of their shows that have sex scenes.
The coordinators job is a mix between a counselor and a stunt coordinator – they chat with the actors and directors and set firm boundaries of what each person is comfortable filming. Then they plan out the scene very much like you would plan a fight scene – where the hands are going, what movements will happen etc.
Once filming, the coordinator stays to make sure that no boundaries get crossed, that the actors are happy and thus reducing the chance of an accusation of sexual assault.
Basically they look after everyone working on a sex scene and keep them happy and safe! Most of them come from dance and stunt coordinating backgrounds.
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I know at least for men they wear a little string tie baggie thing on their genitals to cover that part up. Sort of like a dice bag I believe
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