• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Sometimes the coerced abuse is right on set with everyone watching, using contractual bullying or the like to distress the actor. Emilia Clarke had to go through that on the Gambo show, the distress on her face was real during those early awooga libertarian-alert hypersus scenes, and the trust fund hogs running the show got so mad when she renogotiated her contract that they eventually character assassinated her in a sort of literal “assassinate the character after cheapening the arc of a SV victim” way.

    I fucking hate that show so much and anyone talking about how “sexy” it was is deeply sus to me.

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      I remember reading somewhere that when Momoa realized they didn’t have a robe ready for Clark between takes of the sex scenes he started screaming at the director to get her something to wear between takes.

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        She was coerced into her early scenes by contractual obligation and the hogs were oinking because of her visible distress, including on set.

        I think the expanded use of intimacy coordinators are a post-Gambo consequence, though the actual trust fund hogs that pushed Emilia Clarke into that didn’t get punished in any way because rich cishet white men.