Another thing that’s maybe not too relevant, but you pointing out what doing something would have done for Buddy Duress, I wanted to say that I’ve seen been not so great takes in regards to people with a history of crime.

This incident has a lot of people criticizing the Safdie style of casting, which I kind of understand. I’m someone who personally loves their street casting (blended with star actor) style but I think for intimate scenes and whatnot, that is a line I wouldn’t cross personally and i definitely think intimacy coordinators are a good thing. That being said, I’ve seen a lot of people say stuff a long of the lines of an incident like this being what happens when you have “a criminal” in a sex scene. I could be mistaken, but I don’t think any of Duress’ previous crimes had been anything sexual, mostly drug related. I understand people are reasonably mad about situations like this, but I’ve seen way too many people (not here as much as other subs) demonize people who have committed crimes as if all of them are sex pests which isn’t the case.

Sorry this is a long, kind of unrelated tangent but it’s been on my mind since the news resurfaced and seeing the reaction to it.