“Right now, there’s still very delineated roles in this business of what a man does and what a women does, and I’d love for some of those barriers to break down.” “One of the reasons I felt comfortable working with her was because she really wanted to portray the truth of the industry, the good and bad of it,” said Calvert. “It wasn’t until the very end of the casting process that I realized everyone who got the job was from the actual industry.”Īnd while a few of performers in “Pleasure” have subsequently criticized its view of the porn world, the film’s vision ultimately comes from Thyberg and the years of research she put into the project. “I started to audition really early to find people that were good for different parts, but I thought it would be a combination with regular actors,” said Thyberg. And I’d decided beforehand that I was going to let the story come to me and build it on my experiences, so everything is based on things I’ve seen and people I’ve met.”Īs a result, many of the actors involved in the film actually work in the adult industry. “After a while, was blurred between research and my life because I started to collaborate with people and they became my friends. “It was a very long period of really getting to know the world from the inside,” she said. She also spent time living in a model house, where performers in the industry live together to cut costs. And also hanging out with people and going to parties.” “A big part of my research was spending time on porn sets and trying to visit as many different types of sets as I could. “So I’ve watched a lot of porn and I’ve been fascinated by the subject for so long,” she said. “Pleasure,” an expansion of Thyberg’s 2013 short film of the same name, is the culmination of seven years of research that began while writing her gender studies thesis on pornography. And most of us were Swedish and women so everyone was really looking out for her and making sure she always felt comfortable.”
But I also made sure to have others around me to help with that, so we were this close little circle of key department and crew members. So I did that job without knowing what it was or having experience with it. “At the time, we didn’t have an intimacy coordinator, because we shot all the sex scenes in 2018 and I’d never heard of an intimacy coordinator. She knew what this film was, but it was very important that she always felt safe. Since she had been on board so early and was at that point so engaged with the story and really wanted to tell it, we were so synchronized in what we were doing. “We knew beforehand, of course, that that was going to be very difficult,” said Thyberg. And I was present for a lot of the aftercare of helping her come down from the experience of being in strenuous bondage.”
We worked out the bondage position in advance, had Sofia in bondage for the shortest possible amount of time that we could and had a lot of conversations about what she felt comfortable and uncomfortable doing. “Ex Libris is an incredibly experienced rope rigger, and we really talked through exactly what we were going to do that day. “The bondage scene was very heavily choreographed,” said Casey Calvert, a performer and director who has been in the adult industry for 10 years and was very involved in the production. The role required Kappel to film several challenging sex scenes, including one involving sadomasochistic bondage and another featuring overt psychological and physical abuse.
I had to make sure it felt OK to bring her on this journey.” Keeping intimacy safe So I met with her four times before I offered her the part even, though I knew I wanted her. She also had to be extremely talented, because it’s such a demanding part to do. “It was important for me to have someone with a lot of humor, but also who you really felt has agency and knows what she’s doing, because I didn’t want the audience to feel like she was someone they needed to rescue. “She was just so good,” the filmmaker said.
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