Amanda Seyfried is not here for on-screen romance anymore, and she’s saying it plainly. At a Hamptons International Film Festival panel hosted by Alec Baldwin on October 4, the actress revealed she passed on a starring role in a new show because it required frequent sex scenes. Her explanation was refreshingly blunt: she just wasn’t into it.
What makes her comments land is the context. Seyfried said intimate scenes used to feel like a“non-thing”for her, but that changed as her two young children, Nina and Thomas, became old enough to watch her work. She also noted that as she gets older, being romantic with a stranger on set feels increasingly strange. Her split from husband Thomas Sadoski last month after nine years of marriage adds another layer to what’s clearly a season of personal recalibration.
Seyfried isn’t alone in questioning how Hollywood handles intimacy. Intimacy coordinators have become standard on set, and more actors are openly discussing the boundaries they set around their work. With two films and a TV series already under her belt from last year, she’s proven she can pick projects on her own terms.
Do you think actors should be expected to film sex scenes, or should it always be their choice?
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