‘He’s the safest person’: How Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth filmed their intimate scenes in Netflix’s Lonely Planet

She’s been making hearts race for more than 40 years, but there’s one thing that makes Laura Dern beat faster than the rest. In Lonely Planet, available from October 11 on Netflix, he turns Liam Hemsworth. An opportunity for the actor to talk about their undeniable on-screen chemistry.

The Oscar winner recently opened up about working with an intimate relationship coordinator on the set of the Suzanne Grant-directed feature film. He specifies that he had “A lot of luck“To work with his partner Liam Hemsworth, who he described as”The safest person I could talk to about everything that was going on in my life.“

A paradigm shift

“While we were shooting these scenes, there was nothing we couldn’t talk about together and work on creatively, professionally, all of that.Laura Dern explained people. “But we also had a lot of support. We talked a lot, a lot.“

Later he emphasizes that the process was “It’s amazing… that film and filmmaking has changed in a way that everyone has a voice and can set boundaries without fear of losing their job or being unpopular.”

It is important to remember how important the presence of intimacy coordinators has become on set, allowing actors and actresses to speak confidently and feel safe.

What is Lonely Planet again?

In Lonely Planet, Laura Dern plays a lonely novelist, Kathryn Lowe, who arrives at a prestigious writers’ retreat in Morocco, hoping that the secluded location will allow her to escape her lack of inspiration. There she meets a young man, Owen Brophy (played by Liam Hemsworth), and what begins as a simple travel acquaintance turns into an intoxicating love story that will change both their lives.

Susanna Grant’s film comes at a time when a type of romance called May-December is on the rise, an Anglo-Saxon expression that refers to a relationship between two people with a large age gap. Nicole Kidman will be one of its representatives with Babygirl with Harris Dickinson soon in theaters and The Bottom of the Family with Zac Efron recently on Netflix, in addition to Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galatsin in The Idea of ​​​​Being with Being on Prime Video.

Lonely Planet is currently available on Netflix.