Netflix did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday evening. ‘We don’t want to risk retaliation,’ she said.” It undermines instinct and spontaneity.” Referring to the human resources employee, Langella wrote, “Toward the end of our conversation, she suggested that I not contact the young lady, the intimacy coordinator, or anyone else in the company.
“Legislating the placement of hands, to my mind, is ludicrous. “It was a love scene on camera,” Langella said. Langella called the instructions “absurd,” he said. During the ensuing investigation, he said, someone in human resources told him that the intimacy coordinator had suggested where the actors should place their hands during the scene.
Langella said he and the actress were both clothed during the scene. “I attempted to follow, but was asked to ‘give her some space.’ I waited for approximately one hour, and was then told she was not returning to set and we were wrapped,” Langella wrote.
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“She then turned and walked off the set, followed by the director and the intimacy coordinator,” Langella wrote in a column for Deadline, about a March 25 incident on the set of “The Fall of the House of Usher.” The series is based on works by Edgar Allan Poe and created by Mike Flanagan. New York Times By Vimal Patel May 5, 2022įrank Langella, who was fired in April from his leading role in a Netflix mini-series after a misconduct investigation, said on Thursday that his dismissal followed a love scene in which the actress playing his wife accused him of touching her leg - an action not in the script.