Home and Away’s Matt Evans recently shared information about how the cast conducts sex scenes.
He said the cast works with an intimacy coordinator to establish boundaries and ensure the set is comfortable.
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Matt Evans’ character, Theo Poulos, is no stranger to having relationships on the show. He has had two serious relationships with Chloe Anderson (Sam Barrett) and Kirby Aramoana (Angelina Thomson) with whom his character is currently in a relationship.
Evans told Yahoo Lifestyle that having an intimacy coordinator to work with them before any sex scenes take place is an ‘important step’ for the people involved.
Matt says, “They will basically get you into the room and you talk about what you are comfortable with, what you’re not comfortable with, [and teach] the simple things [like] asking permission before you touch each other”.
“You’re touching each other’s hands, shoulders, things like that. And then we’ll do basic things of [going] through…where you like to be touched, and not like to be touched”.
“It’s pretty essential, and it’s a very good thing to have.”
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The cast also completes a sheet where they can list how comfortable they are when it comes to different actions.
The actor also reveals that the cast are able to add or remove actions from the script after chatting with their scene partner.
“A lot of the time, you’ll probably chat with your partner about it beforehand, [saying],’Hey, if there’s a kiss scripted here, we could do that’.
“Or sometimes if it’s not scripted, you might want to put one in there just for effect, and you can talk to each other about that. It definitely makes it a lot easier,” he says.
