In Netflix‘s Forever, Mara Brock Akil’s serialized adaptation of Judy Blume’s novel of the same name, two Los Angeles high schoolers navigate young love and their first forays with intimacy. The tender-hearted show, which updates the source material’s time period, locale and protagonists, caused its fair share of “nerves” for lead actors Michael Cooper Jr. and Lovie Simone as they took on their more “vulnerable” scenes.
“Lovie and I, we really made a conscious effort to check in on one another,” Cooper Jr., in his breakout role, told People in a new interview. “We’re a bit vulnerable, but immediately, we kind of felt comfortable with our intimacy coordinator. It’s a lot of technicality when it comes to those things.”
“There’s 30 people in the room with a camera, and the way that you’re positioning your body, I mean, everything’s choreographed,” he explained, adding that he and his co-star
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