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INTIMACY Guidelines

The document outlines best practices for handling intimacy, simulated sex scenes, and nudity in productions, emphasizing the importance of consent, communication, and safety measures. It includes guidelines for auditions, contracts, rehearsals, and on-set practices to ensure actors feel secure and respected. The use of an Intimacy Coordinator is recommended for managing intimate scenes and ensuring professional boundaries are maintained.

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INTIMACY Guidelines

The document outlines best practices for handling intimacy, simulated sex scenes, and nudity in productions, emphasizing the importance of consent, communication, and safety measures. It includes guidelines for auditions, contracts, rehearsals, and on-set practices to ensure actors feel secure and respected. The use of an Intimacy Coordinator is recommended for managing intimate scenes and ensuring professional boundaries are maintained.

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INTIMACY ON SET GUIDELINES

BEST PRACTICE WHEN WORKING WITH INTIMACY,


SIMULATED SEX SCENES, AND NUDITY

1. Producers to Identify whether a production may include scenes


of intimacy and sexual content as part of the risk assessment;
ensure that relevant departments are informed and necessary
measures put in place:
a. Put in place wardrobe - appropriate covering for genitalia
b. Crew required for a closed set
c. Consideration of, and budget for, an Intimacy Coordinator.

2. No initial auditions or screen tests are to include sex scenes or


to involve nudity. Where, in exceptional circumstances, nudity or
semi-nudity is required in a recall, the actor must be informed in
advance and provided with the script. All material recorded must be
protected and be destroyed once the role has been cast:

a. The actor to sign a written agreement with the Casting


Director that any recording of a nude or semi-nude audition will
be con dential.
b. The actor may be asked to audition in speci c clothing (e.g.
swimwear) required for a commercial but will be informed in
advance.
c. If an actor is nude or semi-nude in a recall, they may bring a
support person to be with them throughout the shoot.
d. The only other people allowed to be present in the audition
room will be the Casting Director and/or Director/Producer, and
the Reader.

3. At point of contract all scenes involving nudity, intimacy, or


simulated sex to be discussed with the actor and representative/
agent, so that agreement is made with full disclosure.
a. The standard Equity contract for screen productions allows the
actor to agree, or disagree, to performing nude and to performing
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simulated sex and to choose the type of nudity the actor is willing to
do (e.g. buttocks only, or full frontal).

a. The standard Equity contract for screen productions allows


the actor to agree, or disagree, to performing nude and to
performing simulated sex and to choose the type of nudity the
actor is willing to do (e.g. buttocks only, or full frontal).
b. Actors sometimes accept a role in which their character will
be semi-nude, only to nd later that additional scenes have
been written into the script which include full frontal nudity and
simulated sex. Actors should not sign a contract for full frontal
nudity and simulated sex if only prepared to go semi-nude.

4. Directors to plainly describe and discuss with the relevant actors


all scenes involving intimacy, simulated sex, and nudity at the
appropriate times in the creative process:

a. Before signing the contract


b. Throughout the rehearsal process
c. And into performance

5. Agreement and consent by the actor, and actors’ representative,


to be given each and every time when working with intimacy,
simulated sex scenes, and nudity.

6. Establish boundaries around areas of concern, including an


agreed strategy to halt the action where necessary, in rehearsals
and lming on set, such as ‘time out’.

7. When sculpting intimacy or a simulated sex scene, for the actor


and director, or the actor and director in conjunction with an
Intimacy Coordinator, to follow the Intimacy On Set Guidelines as
standard practice:

a. To always have a third party present, keeping the


work professional, not private
b. Identify the blocking of the scene
c. Agree areas of physical touch
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d. Sculpt the physical actions using plain words
e. Separately identify the emotional content of the
scene
f. Integrate the physical actions and emotional content,
creating a seamless intimate scene

8. On stage, when the rehearsal includes a simulated sex scene, or


nudity, to ensure the use of a closed set.

9. On stage, when the performance includes a simulated sex scene,


for an intimacy call to be held before each performance. It is
imperative the actors continue to rehearse, so they don’t become
careless and to ensure everyone feels secure and respected both
onstage and off. The intimacy call is an opportunity to:

a. Check in with the actors to ask how they think the


intimacy and simulated sex scene went during the previous
performance.
b. Agreement and consent given for areas of physical touch
before each performance, allowing for possible adaptations to
be accommodated
c. Sculpting the physical actions using plain words, to be
gone through at least twice.

10. Nudity. Any actor who has consented to nudity must make sure
that their agent knows the actor wants a discussion about every
nude scene and a summary of agreed scenes in writing. When
working with nudity, for the director to discuss the detail of every
nude scene with the relevant actors, writing down the proposed
shots and getting the actor’s consent in writing. When working with
nudity on set:

a. Pre-agree times when nudity will be used


b. It is imperative to employ a closed set as standard when
working with nudity
c. Nudity only from action to cut, and at all other times, the
actor should be covered
d. No nudity with genitals touching. Always use patches or
modesty barrier

11. When kissing, no use of tongues as standard practice. However,


should the director feel it would serve the scene better to use
tongues, then there must be agreement and consent from both of
the actors. When rehearsing a stage/screen kiss,

a. Start off with the actors giving and receiving a peck


when agreeing physical touch, and sculpting the physical
actions, using plain words

b. Then exploring the quality of the kiss when identifying


the emotional content of the scene, and integrating the
physical actions and emotional content

12. Actors should not override the guidelines independently. Any


new proposal is to be discussed with other actors and director.

13. Consider the use of a suitably trained Intimacy Coordinator in


scenes with simulated sexual content.

14. Scenes with simulated sex into abusive/violence simulated


sexual content, consider the use of an Intimacy Coordinator in
conjunction with a Fight Director/Stunt Coordinator.

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