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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why WOULDNT you want one? Unless you’re like OP and you’re trying to be the creepy one who is turned on by being in the scene and you don’t want an IC there to ruin the vibe or something. Don’t you realize how creepy you sound OP[/quote]

I'm OP and not at all trying to be creepy. I listed the men I would trust to be respectful and appropriate. When Harry Styles did one of his music videos the models said afterwards they were calling him "the Consent King" because each time the director told him to touch them a certain way he'd always make sure they were okay with it first. Keanu Reeves' reputation of him being super respectful is well known. Etc. [/quote]

Yeah but you're not getting it. It's not about you personally, it's about the whole environment. Like in the Harry Styles example, it probably would have been better (plus more efficient) if instead of him checking with each model for each individual director's instruction, the director just worked with an IC who would speak to the models and Styles ahead of time and make sure everyone was okay with what the director had in mind.

Also, a very powerful actor/musicion asking someone who is very replaceable on a set (like a model in a music video) if they consent to a direction that has just been issued by the director is not really ideal consent practices. Because there's a lot of implied pressure there to just say "yes, of course, that's fine." A major reason ICs became a thing is because there are actually not many good ways for young, less experiences, less famous, and lower paid performers to say "actually this makes me uncomfortable" on a set without being labeled as difficult. Many actors (both men and women) have stories from early in their career where they were asked to do something they really didn't want to do, but did it because they didn't want to get a reputation for being hard to work with. Might be something in a sex scene, doing a stunt or scene that caused injury or other physical harm, wearing a costume or doing some level of nudity that they hadn't agreed to beforehand and that they didn't want to do.

This is why once people are famous, they have all kinds of riders in their contracts including stuff like wardrobe approval, what body parts can be shown on screen, approval of body doubles, what stunts they will and won't do, etc. Because before they had any leverage, they often had little to no power over it. The point of an IC, just like with a stunt coordinator, is to address some of that power imbalance to protect people on set who don't have the industry leverage to say "this doesn't feel right to me."[/quote]

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