“Are you fucking kidding me?” Rhimes exclaims when the head of the PTA at her kids’ school insists that all goods at the parent bake sale be homemade. She explodes the guilt and anxiety that infect so many conversations around working motherhood.
When a trainer insists to Rhimes that “nothing tastes as good as thin feels,” she does not hesitate to fire him. She poses rhetorical questions, repeats herself for emphasis, inserts dramatic pauses, and employs ALL CAPS to really drive her point home.īooks about the power of positive thinking may, at this point, be something of a cliché, but Year of Yes is largely free of them. Each chapter is written like Rhimes plans one day to deliver it as a speech. Writing is “laying track for a train.” Burying herself in work to avoid human contact is “playing in the pantry,” a reference to her childhood love of doing just that. At her heaviest, she persistently writes about herself as a piece of veal. As anyone who has ever watched Scandal knows, she has an irritating tendency to flog metaphors to deaths (white hats, anyone?). Thankfully, we now live in a time with intimacy coordinators who help to craft those moments with the actors and directors, both to make sure the important emotional beats of the scene are communicated to the audience, and to see to it that no one on camera is doing anything they’re actually uncomfortable with.Rhimes has a folksy way with words that can be distracting. I always say, 'If you wanna do a love scene in a snowsuit, do a love scene in a snowsuit, we'll figure it out.' To let them have that freedom is really empowering for actors.Īs we now know, there was once a time, not that long ago, when actors were largely expected to wing it when it came to sex scenes.
I'm very strongly for the fact that we have intimacy coordinators, who can then work with the actors to make sure they're comfortable in doing everything. We all remember the stir that was caused by that Taylor Swift-scored sex marathon scene, correct? Well, Shonda Rhimes recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the franchise’s very intimate scenes, and said: There was a lot to love about the first, mega-hit season of Bridgerton, but one thing that viewers took special note of was how this was pretty much the first time an on-screen love story set in Regency England included sex scenes and nudity.
What Did Bridgerton’s Shonda Rhimes Say About Shooting And Writing Sex Scenes?
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