BridgertonはNetflixの契約を持つ理由として現在もなお最も人気の高い作品の一つであり、4シーズン目が進む今もその勢いは止まる気配を見せません。ファンは登場人物間の関係の展開の一つひとつに釘付けとなり、特に番組のより刺激的な瞬間には注目が集まります。最新のシーズンには、浴槽での象徴的なシーンが含まれていました。
Bridgerton season 4 stars Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha, who played leads Benedict and Sophie, recently spoke with THR about one of the sexier scenes in the series, one well known to fans of the original book. When asked about what it was like to film the scene, Thompson explained that his goal was actually not to make it sexy, but to make it feel real. He explained…
With those scenes, the thing to really hold at bay, for me anyway, is that sort of pressure of, ‘Oh, it’s this kind of scene and we need to deliver this kind of thing so that people need to be excited’ or whatever. I think that’s not really your job. Your job is to just live the scene.
Bridgertonは現代のテレビ業界の中で少し異端児的な存在です。近年、テレビや映画では画面上の性的描写やヌード露出が減少傾向にあり、ジェネレーションZがこの種の場面を積極的に求めなくなっているとよく言われます。その一因として、スクリーン上の性描写が現実的だとは感じられないとの見方が広がっていることが挙げられています。
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Thompson indicates that in his case, the goal is very much to make the scenes realistic. The actors are encouraged to simply film the scene rather than worry about how it’s going to look on screen. He credits the show’s intimacy coordinator for accomplishing this, and focusing the actors on simply making the scene, and not being “thirst trap puppets.” He continued…
Lizzy [Talbot], the intimacy coordinator, enables you to do that. She puts you straight in the scene rather than standing there thinking, Are people going to enjoy this? You can’t really control that, so you have to keep that side of things at bay because we’re not thirst trap puppets. We try and deliver something real, the story of it.
Setting aside the fact that “Thirst Trap Puppets” is an excellent band name that somebody should use, this makes a lot of sense. While sex scenes are undeniably meant, to one degree or another, to excite an audience, they’re also, one hopes, meant to progress a story, and the actors should be focused on the latter objective. The rest of it can be handled by cinematographers and editors who frame the sequence in a way that makes it fun TV.
Filming the bathtub sequence had plenty of things to navigate. Yerin Ha mentions that everything from the use of oil to, her own small stature in a large bathtub made the scene somewhat complex.
Perhaps this is exactly why a show like Bridgerton is so popular. While some may argue that Bridgerton sometimes isn’t horny enough, people don’t mind sex scenes; they just feel they shouldn’t feel quite so polished. Fans are already excited for Bridgerton Season 5. We can expect the show to continue its approach to steamy television, which will no doubt still be fun to watch, even if that’s not what the actors are ever worried about.
