The producers behind the long running soap opera “The Bold And The Beautiful” have just made the surprising announcement that they are currently using female blowup dolls for sex scenes so that they can adhere to coronavirus guidelines as they resume filming of the show.
“When we were reviewing the scripts we started taking out all the romantic scenes and [the scripts] just fell flat,” executive producer and head writer Bradley Bell told the New York Post.
“We put our heads together trying to figure out a way to make these scenes work without breaking the eight-foot [distancing] rule — and we brought out a doll we used years ago as a corpse,” he added. “We posed it and it was very convincing. It’s a great doll and we’ll be using her with hair and makeup as a stand-in to match some of our leading ladies.”
Though they are only using one blowup doll at this time, Bell warned that they “may be employing a lot of dolls in future love scenes.”
“We’re going to see how it works,” Bell said. “We may be investing in more dolls and male dolls. We’re searching Web sites and combing Hollywood to see what’s available — so we may be employing a lot of dolls in future love scenes.”
“The Bold And The Beautiful,” which recently became the first network scripted show to resume filming after the COVID-19 shutdown, had also considered using the real-life spouses of the show’s actors for its famously racy love scenes.
“We had the idea that, if [the actors] can’t touch one another and you can’t see them in a tight embrace then that’s a real problem. So we thought to reach out to some of the husbands and wives of the actors and ask them if they would be body doubles in the kissing scenes,” Bell said. “Some of them were interested. We’ve had stunt doubles before but this is the first time we’ve had kissing doubles.”
He made sure to add that any husbands and wives used on the show will be tested for COVID-19, “and we’ll make sure it’s safe and the husband and wife are comfortable kissing. And so we may have some very hot kissing on the show. With camera tricks and editing, it will appear as though it’s our leading man with his leading lady.”
Many other precautions are being taken on the set of the show as well.
“All actors are wearing masks unless they’re shooting scenes — they will always be a minimum of eight feet apart,” Bell said, adding that the show is “exercising extreme caution” and going above and beyond to adhere to guidelines.
“We’ll have a limited number of people on the stage at any time and we’ve reconfigured our control booth,” said Bell. “We’re separating the directors, who will all be six feet apart with plexiglass between them and we’ve moved our lighting crew to an auxiliary room and separated them with plexiglass.”
“We’ve gone through all the scripts and have trimmed some scenes,” he concluded. “There won’t be any group scenes and the majority [of scenes] will be with two actors and occasionally one actor.”
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