XO, Kitty’s Anna Cathcart and Anthony Keyvan reveal why intimate scenes can be ‘uncomfortable’
XO, Kitty’s Anna Cathcart and Anthony Keyvan explain why the intimate scenes in the show can be ‘uncomfortable’.
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ANTHONY KEYVAN: It's actually extremely uncomfortable and mechanical. There are a lot of moving parts, and it's the least sexy thing on the planet, to be honest.
ANNA CATHCART: Yes, definitely not romantic.
ANTHONY KEYVAN: You have to rehearse these things. You have to talk it out.
ANNA CATHCART: It's kind of like a dance, I should say, like choreography to make sure that--
ANTHONY KEYVAN: There's an intimacy coordinator, someone who's there to, like, make sure, yeah, everyone is on the same page. Everyone knows what they're comfortable with. So, it's a very thought-out process, and there's nothing, like, spontaneous or, like, necessarily fun about it. It is very-- like, it feels like work. Like, OK, I have to remember to move my head this way.
ANNA CATHCART: I feel like, yeah, the dance is the best way that I kind of framed it in my head to, like, not feel as, like, nervous about it. And I was lucky at least for my scene partners that they-- we all had each other's back, and they made sure that we were comfortable and stuff. And that helped for sure to, like, be friends in real life too so you knew you could trust them. But yeah, it's definitely an interesting experience, and I don't think people can picture what that would look like.
ANTHONY KEYVAN: Yeah.
ANNA CATHCART: So, it was my first time.
ANTHONY KEYVAN: It's definitely not as magical as, like, what the show makes it seem like. Oh, what secrets? Secrets, secret, secrets are no fun unless you share with everyone.
ANNA CATHCART: The cast are all, like-- I don't know if this is a secret, but I still think it's people-- might not realize it that the cast are all, like, besties and that--
ANTHONY KEYVAN: Oh yeah--
ANNA CATHCART: --hang all the time.
ANTHONY KEYVAN: --yeah. I feel like you're so used to watching shows and, like, not seeing, like, the cast hang out after, like. But we were genuinely hanging out. We were with each other 24/7. We weren't at work, we were hanging out outside at work.
ANNA CATHCART: Again, not a secret, but I do think people wouldn't really expect it is we never met each other--
ANTHONY KEYVAN: Yeah.
ANNA CATHCART: --like, at all until--
ANTHONY KEYVAN: Before.
ANNA CATHCART: --it was like, you are the cast, and you are in Korea, and we're about to start.
ANTHONY KEYVAN: We all met over Zoom because a lot of us were in quarantine during COVID. Like, when you fly into the country, they have go into, like, a week quarantine. So, I met everyone over Zoom.
ANNA CATHCART: Mm-hm.
ANTHONY KEYVAN: And then I slowly met everyone at the hotel before we started filming. That's probably it. Like, we didn't know each other.
ANNA CATHCART: We didn't know what to expect all going into it.
ANTHONY KEYVAN: Yeah.
ANNA CATHCART: For sure. And it worked out so well
ANTHONY KEYVAN: It worked out perfectly. So, like, it was definitely a big risk, but I think it paid off.
ANNA CATHCART: Yeah, I think about all the time. Like, how did that work out? We were so lucky.
Everyone just clicks. OK, well, for her cameo first, that was so much fun. And it was so exciting to work with her.
There parts of the scene that got cut. So it was actually longer when we were shooting it. And I had, like, a whole long speech and would just, like, stare right into Jenny's eyes and perform this whole thing that I'm like, you wrote this.
This is so crazy. So that was a really, really fun day on set, and it was so cool. I love that she always has a cameo in all of her projects. It's so much fun, I think, for viewers to look for it and see it. So--
ANTHONY KEYVAN: The JCU.
ANNA CATHCART: --in the big JCU, in the Jenny Han Cinematic Universe, yes. Yeah, I love that cameo.