Dame Joan Collins on filming sex scenes in the age MeToo forgot

How complicated sex scenes are these days. They are, rightly, all about consent and comfort for the actors but must still fulfil the vision of the director — hence the presence of the ‘intimacy co-ordinator’ on set.

It makes you wonder how movie stars got through them back in the day. Step forward Dame , no less, to clear that one up.

‘It’s hard to work that up, you know. I mean I did it in The Stud, but I had to get so drunk! We all did,’ she says. ‘There was an orgy scene and Oliver Tobias, Sue Lloyd, Mark Burns and I got really plastered beforehand.

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