Amanda Seyfried admitted that she felt uncomfortable filming n-de scenes when she was 19, but felt she had to do it to "keep my job."
Seyfried started off her acting career when she was 15 on soap operas before moving on to teen hits like "Mean Girls" and "Veronica Mars."
During an interview with Porter magazine, Seyfried recalled her early years in acting and said she wished she was starting out now because intim-cy coordinators are more common and actors can speak up about being uncomfortable about scenes.
"Being 19, walking around without my underwear on – like, are you kidding me? How did I let that happen?" Seyfried said. "Oh, I know why: I was 19 and I didn't want to upset anybody, and I wanted to keep my job. That's why."
She added that she came out of the pre-#MeToo era "pretty unscathed."
Intim-cy coordinators – professionals who help choreograph intim-te scenes between actors — have only become commonplace on some film sets in recent years. Several actors have recently spoken up about the change and how it has made them more comfortable filming s-x scenes or n-dity.
"Outlander" star Sam Heughan and "Tomb Raider" star Alicia Vikander spoke earlier this year that they didn't feel "supported" or "protected" when filming s-x scenes without coordinators.
Earlier this week, "Game of Thrones" star Sean Bean told the UK's Sunday Times that intim-cy coordinators "spoil the spontaneity" on a set during s-x scenes.
"It would inhibit me more because it's drawing attention to things," Bean said. "Somebody saying, 'Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his thing...' I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise."
"West Side Story" star Rachel Zegler, "The Good Place" actor Jameela Jamil, and even Bean's "Snowpiercer" costar Lena Hall responded to Bean's comments, defending the use of intim-cy coordinators.
Hall, who was mentioned by Bean in the Sunday Times interview as someone who was "up for anything" due to her theater experience, clarified on Twitter that she felt "comfortable" around Bean but she had no issue asking for an intim-cy coordinator if she ever felt "weird, gross, over exposed etc."
"Just because I am in theater (not cabaret, but I do perform them every once in a while) does not mean that I am up for anything," Hall wrote. "Seriously does depend on the other actor, the scene we are about to do, the director, and whatever crew has to be in there to film it."
The actor continued: "I do feel that intim-cy coordinators are a welcome addition to the set and think they could also help with the trauma experienced in other scenes."
