"It's not saying, 'Isn't this great,'" Freeman says of the student-teacher affair at the center of the film.Jessica is a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly, where she covers TV, movies, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in Bustle, NYLON, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, and more. She lives in California with her dog., the British actor, 52, said that the film is not intended to glamorize the relationship between his and Ortega's characters.
Back in February, the film's intimacy coordinator, Kristina Arjona, said Ortega was "comfortable" with the material and actively involved with the execution. "There was many, many people throughout this process, engaging with to make sure that it was consistent with what she was comfortable with, and she was very determined and very sure of what she wanted to do," Arjona."I'm hyper aware of both of my talent and making sure that we're consistently checking in and that at no point are any of their boundaries being surpassed.