Background players on HBO’s Westworld have had to sign consent forms agreeing to participate in “graphic sexual situations”, including “genital-to-genital touching” and posing “on all fours while others who are fully nude ride on your back”. SAG-AFTRA said it will have a representative on the set today to monitor the situation when the sex scene is being shot.
The consent agreement was given to an unknown number of extras by Central Casting, which is casting the show’s background players. It states: “This document serves to inform you that this project will require you to be fully nude and/or witness others fully nude and participate in graphic sexual situations. By accepting this Project assignment, you may be required to do any of the following: appear fully nude; wear a pubic hair patch; perform genital-to-genital touching; have your genitals painted; simulate oral sex with hand-to-genital touching; contort to form a table-like shape while being fully nude; pose on all fours while others who are fully nude ride on your back; ride on someone’s back while you are both fully nude; and other assorted acts the Project may require. The Project will also include language and sexual situations that some may consider personally objectionable or uncomfortable.”
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The more than 50 naked extras taking part in the filming are being well-paid for touching one another’s genitals and such – up to $600, according to a source familiar with the shoot.
SAG-AFTRA is telling its members that the agreement may be unenforceable if it conflicts with the terms of the union’s Television Agreement, which provides that consent to appear in scenes requiring nudity or sex acts may be withdrawn at any time; that the set must be closed to anyone not having business with the production, and that no still photography may be authorized without the consent of the background actor.
The union said that it will have a representative on the set Wednesday “to answer any questions.”




I’m sure it will be tasteful.
Hbo will have so many law suits filed it will put them out if business.
You’ve never seen an HBO show apparently
They contract for series. HBO is not culpable if that happens. The people who are producing the series would be.
This is why Hollywood is completely lost. They have little to offer except garbage and filth.
I thought Jonah Nolan was one of the sane people in Hollywood. I’ll have to re-think that.
I’m a sitcom camera operator. We always have ‘genital to genital contact’ during shooting. I love my job. 😂
Does genital to genital mean actual sex? Not sure if it means simulated or not…never heard that term before used.
It’s not sex if you didn’t mean to do it. Right? Or if you don’t ejaculate? Or if you don’t penetrate? Or if you’re not in love?
Well, scoo — if someone’s slapping their junk up on my girlymeat, I call it sex. But then, I’m just an old fashioned girl. 😇
That’s awesome… thank you for the laugh! Seriously!
Wet pay?
I love the picture included at the top of this article. I had to do a double take. Hahahaaaaa
Is that your gun, or are you just happy to see me?
This agreement should be part of every job contract .More interesting than the standard missionary .
How long until HBO just starts airing porn instead of “shows”?
That started years ago. The “shows” are just filler.
No one is forcing you to watch. Some sex scenes are required for story, doesn’t mean it’s porn. Not sure why people get so upset, how is doing it as an actor for your job any different than a gynecologist looking at it everyday?
Do you know the definition of porn? I looked it up a few years ago. The webster’s dictionary I looked it up in defined it as something that was sexually arousing, both with and without intent. SO, if I look at a … peach or a car or hair brush, whatever, and I am sexually aroused, then it’s porn. OR, if you aren’t sexually aroused but the INTENT is to arouse then it’s porn. It said nothing about nudity. So, on the flip side, if I look at Playboy and I’m NOT aroused, it doesn’t mean it’s not porn because the intent is there. By THE ACTUALLY definition of porn, most PG13s have porn because they have sex scenes that are sexually arousing, both intended and not intended. Get it?
If a film needs “G-to-G” touching, then it needs better writers. Pandering to the ghouls who watch porn isn’t film-making, it’s porn.
So graphic depictions of sex automatically indicates bad writing? And only ghouls watch porn?
Statistically speaking yes if you need porn the writing is not so good.
Example of this principle: Barfood. Pronounced “Barf-ood”.
Typically I avoid restaurants who make too much money off of the bar because they can spend less effort on the food.
Obviously there are exceptions but this principle has served me well.
Yes.
YES. Only ghouls and pervs watch porn.
Boo.
Apparently good screenwriters are a lot more expensive than extras willing to simulate an orgy.
I volunteer.
I KNEW this series was going to be good.
I was thinking the same thing! hmm.. I think I might like this one…
Nolan doesn’t usually do sexy, I’m surprised but it actually sounds edgy and good.
Hell yes!
Go figure.
Hell I agree to that kind of touching right now.
Giddy Up.
Stop youre turning me on.
Only if the show’s writers and producers are also extras in those scenes. Why oh why do we stand for this kind of exploitation of the lowest paid citizens of this country?
$157/8 for BG. The PAs make $9 and hour based on a 14 hour day.
Hollywood extras aren’t the lowest paid citizens of the country.
low enough. it’s no bajillion per movie
The ‘lowest paid’? I guess there will be naked illegal aliens. Boo.
If someone agrees to do it for pay then it’s not exploitation.
The pay rate is like 500 dollars or something like that and the extras knew beforehand what the scene entails. They were very detailed about the description. They asked the extras to provide their own partners if possible to simulate the fake sex.
SICK!!!
when in doubt throw in a big orgy scene
Robots are used for sex in the story as part of the amusement park, I’m sure these will be the robots.
Aaaaand the line between legitimate actors and porn stars becomes even fuzzier…
Not if everyone has been properly waxed.
Ha to funny.
I would agree except I see the line very clearly. This is porn. See the definition I provided above for the word “Porn.”
This is not porn. You have apparently never seen porn. And I say that as someone who is very annoyed at the constant cheap nude scenes in HBO shows.
Wrong JM, it’s not just nudity they’re asking for but genital to genital touching.
That’s Porn.
Hollywood is the center of Hades folks….. Filled with perversion and contempt for all that is good.
It has been for a long long time. Washington D.C. and NYC are right up there with it.
I know, right? We should all move to the bible belt, with a higher rate of STDs, teen pregnancy, and abortion than anywhere else in the country. Not to mention a much higher rate of porn consumption. Personally, I blame Hollywood for it all.
Really, I have never heard of any such stats. Curious as of the source you use. I guess you consider everyone who lives in the “bible belt” as someone who opposes such behavior.
I live in the Bible Belt and we do have high teen pregnancy here.
Love the bible belt. Moved here FROM California 13 years ago. BEST decision of my life. I’ve NEVER met more caring, loving, honest people than before moving here.
@Ann Joyner – After reading all of your comments and your obsession with PORN, I could have guessed that you were from the Bible Belt. Stop worrying so much about sex and porn.
In Hollywood will there be any response other than “Hell to the yes!”?
And here I thought I was looking at a ground-breaking SCI-FI show, developed and produced by fans of the genre. X-Files it is then. I prefer my porn plain (or with the occasional silly set-up).
PURE FILTH.
Is there any mouth to rectum requirements?
Will Anthony Hopkins be involved? Ed Harris? James Marsden? Or just the second-class citizens?
Ah, those brave and brilliant writers. Here’s an idea – show us you have the strength of your artistic convictions – either you or your children are first ones on the pile.
Mny are willing because scale for simulated sex is over $800 for 8 hours
Wow. Desperate times call for…the return of ‘Dream On’? #DidItFirst
Dream On had much better looking women than HBO has now. One should also give ’em a miss because they have gone from fun goofy good time stuff to full on 70s Misogynist stuff, part of the reason they have gone from having “Name talent” to bottom of the barrel stuff across the board.
I think Anthony Hopes and Evan Rachel Wood are name talent, not sure what the hell you are talking about bottom of the barrel…Dream On was about as misogynistic as you can get, up there with juvenile opuses such as American pie.