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‘28 Years Later’ Intimacy Coordinator on Covering Up Samson’s Huge Prosthetic Between Takes, Fake Butts and That Infected Birth Scene
'28 Years Later' intimacy coordinator Vanessa Coffey on telling Danny Boyle that his infected couldn't be naked on set and Samson's prosthetic.
Chief among them: the scene-stealing specimen worn by Chi Lewis-Parry, the 6’ 9” former MMA fighter who plays Samson, the main berserker (or “Alpha”) variant of the infected in Danny Boyle ’s long-awaited horror sequel. When “28 Years Later” was in development, the initial presumption was that the actors and extras portraying those rampaging around not wearing much at all (after almost three decades, their clothes have effectively fallen apart) would be doing so in the buff. Essentially, having a load of naked people running about wasn’t going to work for a film where one of the the lead stars (newcomer Alfie Williams, who plays Spike) was 13 years old at the time of production.
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