It's so interesting to me that the ES's long-established, go-to excuse is always "that's not how co-workers usually behave" or "my husband/boyfriend would be furious if I touched my co-worker like that!" These people don't work in entertainment, so they don't understand. I'm a dancer, and yes, we ABSOLUTELY touch our co-workers like that. If a job requires intense physicality with someone (the kind that would make a non-entertainer very uncomfortable) you become very used to touching them all
Thanks so much @ttalovebug for sharing your experience and thoughts about this! It’s great to hear this issue from a dancer’s perspective.
Like dancers, I know that actors are trained to feel comfortable touching and being touched by other actors and they often tend to be touchy feely people as well. Sam and Cait are not two bank employees. They are actors who do intimate scenes with each other.
Your mentioning Dancing with the Stars reminds me of something I read about Will Ferrell and Jon Heder when they were filming Blades of Glory (2007). They had to touch each other a lot in learning some of the paired figure skating moves and one of them said after a short time it just felt natural holding hands. To my knowledge Will and Jon were never romantically involved.
I think that is what it is like for Sam and Cait. It just feels natural to hug and touch each other because they have to do it on set very often for their roles. But that doesn’t mean they are romantically involved. (JMHO as a fan.)
Updated 01.19.17 at 6:17 EST.
