Sex scenes with a 'Wicker' man? 'Less embarrassing' than usual, says Olivia Colman

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Set us as preferred The thing about sex scenes in TV and movies is that filming them is, usually, very funny.This is so even when one partner isn’t covered in a sculpted, synthetic material that makes him look like a buff, thatched-together take on the captor/suitor in “Beauty and the Beast.” Or when it’s not scripted for the set’s bed to break with a thunderous clatter.Or when the married writer-director team in charge of their project isn’t demonstrating what needs to happen with the aid of an intimacy coordinator.Then there’s “Wicker.” Filmmakers Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s steamy-yet-hilarious adaptation of the Ursula Wills short story is about an ostracized medieval fisherwoman who, on a lark and to stick it to the pretty mean girls in town, asks the local basket weaver to fashion her a husband made out of wicker.

What grounds that preposterous plot is that the film stars Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård, award-winning actors who are both known to have impeccable comedic timing and to not take themselves too seriously.Skarsgård says of “Wicker,” which takes on toxic masculinity, the institution of marriage and more, “What I thought was really fun was that the protagonist was not only a woman … but a woman who wasn’t 23 … and it can still be steamy and sexy and fun and exciting, even.”Plus, Colman says, her co-star’s full-body wicker suit helped with the simulated coitus.“It actually makes it less embarrassing for me because there wasn’t skin touching,” she admits.There’s also no nudity in the sex scenes, which Colman says was everyone’s choice, because they wanted to keep it “all in our imaginations.” The most sensual scene in the movie is actually a dance number at a public gathering where the two characters slowly sway and caress each other, much to t...