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By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | April 22, 2024
Several years ago, Ruth Wilson bowed out of Showtime’s The Affair ahead of its fifth season for reasons that still remain murky. Wilson signed an NDA, but other crew members have said that she had wanted to leave The Affair because of the “ongoing frustrations with the nudity required of her,” and that the number of sex scenes required of her created friction with the showrunner.
Wilson has made a few vague statements, notably that she “didn’t feel safe,” that “things didn’t feel right” on the show, and she complained that scenes were overly focused on her “orgasm face,” not that of male actors.
Dominic West, who co-starred on The Affair with Wilson as her love interest, backs her up. In an interview with The Sunday Times, he said, “We talked a lot about it and I suppose I did experience it. I don’t really like talking about it but … yeah, everything Ruth has said is absolutely right.”
The showrunner of The Affair insisted that she “did not always agree with Ruth Wilson, but I did always have respect for her craft. On a continuous basis throughout Ruth’s time on the show, I tried to protect her and shoot sex scenes safely and respectfully.”
In the same interview, West also suggested that he and his wife, Catherine FitzGerald, former Viscountess Lambton, are doing well following the alleged affair between West and Lily James, enough to joke about it.
“I hesitate to speak on my wife’s behalf because it was obviously horrible, particularly for her,” he said. “But we do joke about it sometimes. Because whenever we went out together, the papers would always say we were ‘putting on a show of unity.’”
West will star in A View from the Bridge at the Theatre Royal Haymarket next month.
Source: The Times of London
