British film and TV directors are being encouraged to seek inspiration from classic romances such as Casablanca and ditch depictions of sex altogether when planning intimate scenes under new guidelines for directing during the Covid-19 crisis.
If you shoot a sex scene that doesn’t have intimacy in it you’ve totally failed – what you’ve produced is a poorer cousin of pornography.”
“At this time when so many people are watching TV, I think that audiences are really hungry for intimacy and connection,” said Anderson.
She said: “For the next few months at least, maybe a year we need to be creative in the way we approach intimacy.