Kgomotso Christopher on shooting sex scenes: ‘It is pretty much like a dance choreography’

Seasoned actress Kgomotso Christopher stars in Netflix's Fatal Seduction and she has opened a conversation regarding nudity and intimate scenes on our screens.

She told TshisaLIVE she found it interesting to be in a platform that enabled them to explore beyond the watershed time of 8pm. 

It may seem more productions are gravitating towards these scenes, and as real as they may look, the actress said it is a choreographed dance (facilitated by an intimacy coach) among actors and a lot of work goes on behind the scenes. 

“It becomes easy (the scenes) when you have the resources of intimacy coaches who choreographed all those stunts you have seen. It's not us, we don't know what we are doing. I always say credit to our intimacy coaches. We would have to spend hours and hours before shooting a scene just to prep, and it's pretty much like a dance choreography, how to do this and that and then we have to practice it and then we go into the aspect of what do you feel comfortable wearing.”

“Now the department of wardrobe is involved to make sure you are comfortable, to make sure everything works before you even shoot it and of course we have the agency to decide what it is we will and will not do. And that's something that people are also not aware of is that as actors we are very clear as to what, how we are shooting and whether we are happy that we are shooting in that way, and the approval comes from us.”

She said there are many methods to film an intimate scene, but it always depends on what she and the other actors have decided to do in the situation. Having worked on this programme, she said she doesn't take it for granted.

Part of the conversation was the viewers who had latched on to Kgomotso's past characters who remembered her in less intimate scenes. However, she told TshisaLIVE her first intimate show was Foreplay: Sex Tips for Girls.

“Series allows us to push the boundaries because terrestrial channels and soapies play at a certain time and at a certain time you can't show certain scenes, so eventually people will say of Isidingo, of Scandal, Thula or Rockville so you won't say of the stuff that we get to do when we are on drama series. We play late at night when people are sleeping. It is quite an interesting one in that sense. That is the reason that I went for the role, for people to see me in a different light, for me to also push myself as an artist, push my craft, diversify my performances, if I can and if a role can offer that, it has to be challenging enough.”