Dame Joan Collins says she had to get ‘plastered’ before performing sex scenes

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Dame Joan Collins has reflected on being encouraged to get “plastered” while performing sex scenes in a pre-Me Too film industry. Collins said that she relied on alcohol while shooting sex scenes for the film, because she founds intimate scenes such “hard work”. “It was the same with an Italian film which, thank God, no one has ever seen, where I had love-making scene and the director gave me and the actor a bottle of rum and said, ‘Enjoy, and come on set in an hour.’” This would raise eyebrows in today’s film industry, which now has intimacy coordinators – trained professionals working closely with actors to choreograph and establish boundaries in intimate scenes – present on Hollywood sets. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Collins added that she was rarely considered for sex scenes past her twenties, stating that the industry deemed her “past her prime” when she turned 27.