Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes
Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes
They say the scenes, which they often don't know about in advance, leave them "shaken" and "upset."
Performers working in the games industry have spoken of their distress at being asked to work on explicit content without notice, including a scene featuring a sexual assault.
Sex scenes are common in modern games - and are often made by filming human actors who are then digitised into game characters.
But performers have told the BBC a culture of secrecy around projects - where scripts are often not shared until the last moment - means they frequently do not know in advance that scenes may involve intimate acts.
They describe feeling "shaken" and "upset" after acting them out.
Performing arts union Equity is demanding action from the industry - it has published guides on minimum pay, and working conditions in games, including on intimate or explicit scenes.
Easy. Just hire escorts. They will make the motions and take the money.
Bro what’s the point of being an actor if you get offended by playing a role.
I'm not sure what industry you're in, but most jobs include standards of what is generally included and expected. You can find unscrupulous people in any industry who will do the jobs that others reject, but they are not the norms.
If you are in a contract and the terms suddenly change to include something unexpected and outside the standard expectations, don't you want someone in a decision making position to speak up? That's all that's going on here, at least from a labor perspective.
Really? Because I will never feel comfortable acting as a rapist, especially if it wasn't explained to me before actually taking the gig.
Please just get therapy. Christ.
Do people not have right to feel uncomfortable?
Ms Jefferies told the BBC she was once asked to act out a scene with a male performer involving a sexual assault with no prior warning. "I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene," she said.
Imagine taking a role where nobody tells you there's anything sexual about it and showing up one day and someone's like "alright time for the rape scene."
“The what?“
“The rape scene, you're character is going to be raped and we need you to mocap it with this guy. Suit up!"
Taking a job doesn't entitle the studio to do whatever they want to you or have you do whatever they want. Standard guild actors will almost always have a nudity and sex clause in their contract. The same doesnt seem to be happening in the gaming industry for VAs and mocap actors, with studios hiding the degree of work behind NDAs to protect their projects and their asses.
Sec scenes are common in modern games?
Y'all I've been big into Armored Core 6, Stardew Valley and Factorio lately what have you been up to?
Edit: I'm being flippant, the idea that an actor could have such a thing sprung on them is awful and I hope they get the protections they deserve.
I know you're being flippant and it definitely is a real issue, but my first reaction was the same. I've played plenty of games with some sexual content in them, but never one with sexual violence other than implied, and usually even the consensual scenes were fade to black, or close to fading to black. I was a little surprised to hear that this is going on.
I've played GTA: San Andreas, and I don't think there's anything overtly sexually explicit in that one (besides the Hot Coffee thing, which still isn't that bad? It's simulated sex acts while the characters still wear their clothes). Even Cyberpunk has like two sex scenes (I never went to the joyous besides for that one mission) that you only really see tits from a first-person pov.
Though I realize that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
😏 haven't unlocked the sex scene in Factorio yet I see.
I wanna git gud enough at Armored Core to see the robots fuck.
Not only the factory grows!
I rail trains every time I play.
Biters want one thing and it's disgusting
Not to be that guy, but Stardew and Factorio both came out in 2016 (early access for Factorio). They're nearly a decade old, so I'm not sure they qualify as modern.
Not okay, not letting them know what they are signing up for.. it's like having them do stunts.
What game does sex scenes? Usually it just fades to black
Custer’s Revenge for the Atari 2600. I play this game exclusively.
What game does sex scenes? Usually it just fades to black
Witcher III is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. I vaguely recall Fable 1 doing the fade-to-black thing, but then staying black and playing out some cliche moaning, which is kind of the same thing from the voice actors's perspective.
Whole category of dating sims and basically soft-core-porn games, which I'm sure have a high demand for acting out these kinda of scenes.
Baldurs Gate 3 still getting praise long after release. Serious unicorn in the game industry!
I say BG3 is to the 2020s what Skyrim was to the 2010s
That's an insult to BG3 and Larian.
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