Sam Heughan Hired ‘Outlander’ Intimacy Coordinator After Pushing Back on Full Frontal Nudity

“Outlander” star Sam Heughan felt out of control during a tense Season 1 scene that showed his penis.
Heughan revealed in his memoir “Waypoints: My Scottish Journey” (via Insider) that he felt betrayed by the Starz series’ creative team after an “unnecessary” shot of his member made it onscreen.
The scene in question involves Heughan’s character Jamie Fraser being sexually assaulted by his rival, Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies). Filmed in 2014, Heughan noted that the scene “would have been handled differently” today.
“This wasn’t a moment where I felt that being naked would add to the horror of what Jamie undergoes in that castle dungeon as a form of punishment, subjugation, and humiliation,” Heughan wrote, noting that while “Outlander” has “never turned away from sexual violence,” that particular sequence did not require nudity on his behalf.
“The cock shot was unnecessary and did betray my trust in the creative team a bit,...
Heughan revealed in his memoir “Waypoints: My Scottish Journey” (via Insider) that he felt betrayed by the Starz series’ creative team after an “unnecessary” shot of his member made it onscreen.
The scene in question involves Heughan’s character Jamie Fraser being sexually assaulted by his rival, Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies). Filmed in 2014, Heughan noted that the scene “would have been handled differently” today.
“This wasn’t a moment where I felt that being naked would add to the horror of what Jamie undergoes in that castle dungeon as a form of punishment, subjugation, and humiliation,” Heughan wrote, noting that while “Outlander” has “never turned away from sexual violence,” that particular sequence did not require nudity on his behalf.
“The cock shot was unnecessary and did betray my trust in the creative team a bit,...
- 26/10/2022
- por Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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