The affair sex scene

You may not know this, but it takes a village to create a killer sex scene. All week long—in celebration of the forthcoming Golden Globes and ELLE's annual Women in TV issue — we'll be putting the women and men responsible for prime time's most sizzling moments in the hot seat. From the actors hello, Scandal's Tony Goldwyn! This is Masters of On-Screen Sex.

In the summer of , actress Ruth Wilson stunned fans and the television industry at large when she abruptly left The Affair , the Emmy-nominated Showtime drama in which she starred, with no explanation. Days after her departure, the actress embarked on an awkward press tour for an upcoming film. Asked repeatedly about her mysterious exit from the show, she would only drop baiting hints. That bigger story, it turns out, is much like the Rashomon -style narrative of the show itself, which explored different character perspectives on the same events and let the audience decide who might be the unreliable narrator. While Wilson was said to have understood that signing on to an adult drama at Showtime called The Affair would likely involve some disrobing, she ultimately took issue with the frequency and nature of certain nude scenes. Those insiders add that Wilson felt Treem, in particular, pressured her to perform such scenes. Treem, however, denies she ever pressured performers.

By Jessica Green For Mailonline. She reportedly quit her role in the raunchy hit drama The Affair because there were too many 'gratuitous nude scenes'. And now Femail can reveal that British actress Ruth Wilson did indeed put in quite the performance, with a grand total of 21 sex scenes across four seasons, which charts her waitress character's affair with a married man.

By Sarah Treem. In keeping with that theme, series co-creator and showrunner Sarah Treem has written her truth about the exit of Ruth Wilson , the intent of the provocative scenes that were part of a drama about the ripple effects of infidelity and what was done to protect the actors involved in them. A little less than two weeks ago, writers from The Hollywood Reporter reached out to say they would be publishing an article about how I created a hostile work environment and asked for a response. Unfortunately, not much of my perspective made it into the story, nor the perspectives of many of the half dozen senior level producers, director and other key crew members who spoke up. My show was about perspective and memory.