Niina Lahtinen talks about filming an intimate scene Joko saat vapuast? on the podcast.
In the podcast, Niina Lahtinen talks about her shame related to a sex scene in a TV series. Matti Matikainen
Actress and screenwriter Niina Lahtinen tells Joko can give up? podcast about what it’s like to act out intimate scenes on TV.
Lahtinen tells his co-host, writer and screenwriter Paula Norose, embarrassed about his experience on the set of a TV series. The series has not yet been released.
Lahtinen starts to tell that during the filming of the series, he also had to play a sex scene with his co-star.
– It included intimate coordinators and everything. We trained how he connects with me and what I do at any point. I was ashamed of it even then, says Lahtinen.
The co-star was a colleague Lahtinen knew from before.
– We both thought that we don’t need an intimate coordinator, since we’ve never used one in our lives, that we just improvise, Lahtinen continues.
However, it was said about the production that the role of the intimate coordinator is important.
– Then we got one. It made us both laugh and giggle terribly.
In the scene, Lahtinen’s character was supposed to seduce his co-star. Then the situation would progress to sex on the sofa.
– I remember that I was terribly ashamed. The idea was that one person was hiding behind the sofa and had to listen to those sex sounds. I had to do vocals and I improvised everything on it.
Lahtinen repeats his shame, but eventually he found out that all the footage of that scene had been cut out of the program.
– But the soundtrack was left on it. But everything we did was so embarrassing that it couldn’t be used, Lahtinen updates.
However, he admits when Norone asks that this is his own interpretation of what happened. Noronen reminds that the production may have wanted to leave things a little more mysterious.
– Why wasn’t it decided in advance, we were just humiliated so that we had to “fuck” there while twenty people were watching, Lahtinen says.
– It’s terrible, why are we talking like this? Finally, Lahtinen updates and says that his children listen to the podcast.
Noronen insists that his children don’t. However, Lahtinen says that he has advised his daughters on matters related to sex and calls himself a “high-level sex therapist”.
Iltalehti previously told about the actress Saara Kotkaniemi, who did research on the making of intimate scenes in camera work and based on that drew up instructions to support making them.
Kotkaniemi told Iltalehte how the filming of intimate scenes involved experiences of abuse. As the most blatant example, he mentioned that previously intimate scenes could be done without any kind of intimate protection.
– For example, there has been genital touching, which nowadays seems absolutely outrageous that such a thing has been done before. The director could have just said that now you could act this love scene, you know how to do it, Kotkaniemi said.
