The American actor and director Kevin Costner was sued by an actress who accuses him of forcing her to shoot a “violent rape scene” that was not scripted or scheduled during the filming of his most recent film, the second part of ‘Horizon’.
As explained by the lawsuit, presented before a Superior Court of California, actress Devyn Labella, 34, recorded as a double action a scene of a rape, scheduled for May 1, 2023, which was recorded normally and after prior test with professionals and without spectators.
The next day, Labella went to the filming set to record another scene, supposedly, without too much action, but once in the set he learned that Costner, project director, “had requested to record additional scenes with another actor (different from the previous day).”
As the actress she bent, she Hunt (‘Anna and the Apocalypse’), refused to make those scenes and abandoned the filming, Labella was called to make her without knowing what had happened, according to the demand.
“Without notice, consent, preparation, or appropriate security measures, such as the presence of the project’s intimacy coordinator, the defendant Costner addressed the actor (Roger Ivens) to repeatedly perform a violent simulation of rape over labella,” says the complaint.
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This scene, which was not “scripted or rehearsed”, unlike the one of the previous day, it consisted, apparently, that Ivens was mounted on it, immobilized it and lifted the skirt “violently as if trying to penetrate it against its will.”
According to what he explains, Costner was present all the time and approached several times to the filming set. In fact, he came to ask him to climb the skirt so much that his intimate parts were very exposed.
The lawyers denounce that, unlike the first scene, none of the security protocols planned for this type of scenes were activated in the second.
“In the filming of May 2 there was no choreography, nor essays, nor previous notices, nor the presence of an intimacy coordinator,” says the document.
In fact, Labella alleges that, in addition to the “permanent trauma that must face for years” for what happened, it presents this demand to “address the failures of Hollywood producers when facing the impacts of participating in sexually explicit and violent scenes, as well as the need for an intimacy coordination.”
The actress explains that at the end of filming, she was no longer called for similar projects or less for the third part of this same tape.
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The director’s defense denied the facts in a statement shared to the specialized press, in which they defended that Costner “always seeks to ensure that everyone works comfortably in their films and takes security very seriously.”
“Labella’s statement has absolutely no merit, and is completely contradicted by her own actions and the facts,” added the lawyer, who discredited the actress accusing her of having “worked with the same lawyer in previous demands,” said the statement collected on Wednesday by Deadline.
With EFE information
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