Martin Freeman, 52, defends controversial scenes with 21-year-old star

The erotic thriller Miller’s Girl yet landed connected Netflix past week, and has already stirred up rather the controversy: its pb stars Martin Freeman and Jenna Ortega stock a 31-year property gap.

Though Ortega has not publically spoken connected the sermon astir their property difference, Freeman defended the film, claiming it does not glamorise the narration it depicts.

“[It’s] grown-up and nuanced. It’s not saying, ‘Isn’t this great?’” helium told UK’s The Times successful a caller interview, calling the contention “a shame.”

The dramedy stars Ortega arsenic 18-year-old Cairo Sweet, a assemblage pupil who strikes up a flirtatious narration with writer and prof Jonathan Miller (Freeman). Their narration comes to a caput aft she writes a enactment communicative for a penning duty successful his class.

Freeman compared the movie to Schindler’s List, the 1993 play astir industrialist Oskar Schindler, who protected the Jewish employees of his mill from being persecuted by the Nazis during World War II.

“Are we gonna person a spell astatine Liam Neeson for being successful a movie astir the Holocaust?” Freeman told The Times.

According to Kristina Arjona, the intimacy co-ordinator who worked connected the film, Ortega was “very definite of what she wanted to do” erstwhile filming intimate scenes with Freeman.

She added, “I’m hyper alert of some of my endowment and making definite that we’re consistently checking successful and that astatine nary constituent are immoderate of their boundaries being surpassed. And again, making definite – particularly with idiosyncratic who’s importantly younger – that they are giving continuous consent.”

Shortly aft Arjona made headlines with that interview, the Screen Actors Guild acceptable caller guidelines banning intimacy co-ordinators from discussing their enactment without explicit support from the actors involved.

The caller standards state, “Intimacy co-ordinators should support the confidentiality of an actor’s enactment and acquisition successful performing highly delicate scenes unless they person the actor’s support to publically stock this information. The nationalist merchandise of details astir an actor’s country enactment oregon confidences entrusted to the intimacy co-ordinator without the performer’s consent is unacceptable.”

Violating these caller guidelines could enactment intimacy co-ordinators astatine hazard of being removed from the Guild’s registry.

Miller’s Girl is present streaming connected Netflix.

This nonfiction primitively appeared successful Decider and was reproduced with permission.