(NSFW?) Are actresses upset by actors' arousal?

Some actresses might get upset, Parks and rec is supposed to be a comedy, so maybe that has to do with why she seemed disturbed.
For example, a movie that is supposed to be sexual in nature or have that stuff in it, it probably won’t upset the actress if that happens to the actor. and that could have something to do with the fact that the actress knows what the scene is and is aware that some guys can’t control that.
Usually, in movies that had sexual stuff in it, you wouldn’t audition unless you were ok with that. Parks and Rec is a tv show and the writers don’t have every episode planned right off the bat, so the actress probably didn’t know what was a possible scene.

I can see it being awkward on Parks and Recreation
Movies like 50 shades though, that may have happened once or twice.

probably would have to keep refilming though

I can see why, as @SergeantQueen says.

But men and women are both human. (well most of them). And if there’s a sexually provocative situation going on, men – especially younger ones – will react.

I’m not saying it’s right or wrong. It tends to be involuntary. Overreacting seems pretty inappropriate. Ignoring it, or saying something like “Joe, go take a cold shower” is probably more appropriate than freaking out.

No one should get upset. Getting rid of a woody isn’t like flipping off a switch.

^Indeed.

Thanks for your answers. I see that I spelled Brooke’s first name wrong.

I wonder if any jellies have dealt with such a situation, if not as professional actors, then maybe in amateur theater.

Good question.

Unfortunately I’ve experienced seeing female actors get upset firsthand. I was in a play for my college art program a few years ago and there was a period where I was celebate (dumbest decision I’ve ever made) so I was easily aroused. It was during a kissing scene. I was fired.

Edit: technically I wasn’t fired, I “stepped down”. Mainly because the awkwardness around the set was hindering the play.

In that example, it seems to me that no one but the actor himself would notice or care if he had a boner.

But HE makes a big thing about it and stops doing the scene to make childish faces and be goofy.

I don’t know what her reaction was specifically about – my best guess is she’s just taken aback by the context shift from an utterly goofy scene, and wants to step away. But it looks to me like making the issue about HER upset seems like misplaced responsibility, because HE tanked the scene because of his own self-absorbtion in his own boner, and his apparent outlook that everyone should want to be fascinated by that too.

I’d probably want to walk off set too until he stopped doing that, whatever my role on set was.

When I was 20 I would get a boner from my cat sitting on my lap. I have never tried to fuck a cat.

Boners happen.. And what would happen if the dude noticed a bit of “damp”?

Any woman with an ounce of maturity knows how the male body performs, understands that such reactions are involuntary, and won’t become outraged or offended. The erection has much more to do with him than with her.

We should probably keep in mind that being disturbed or freaking out can be just as involuntary as the erection itself. So instead of judging actresses (or actors) for being discomfited by the situation, we might want to accept that they’re human too. It’s another thing altogether if they go too far with it (like getting someone fired over it, as in that episode of Entourage that was mentioned). Unless it starts getting in the way of the production—or unless someone starts abusing their coworkers’ assumptions of good faith—I think most people can understand that there’s not stopping bodies from being bodies.

Well, I agree that he started drawing attention to it first. She probably wouldn’t have noticed, or, if she had, would probably have ignored it. I’m sure it’s not the first erection she’s noticed in her life, but he made a thing of it.
I think for her, the fact that his erection came on as a result of her slapping him, was the cause of her reaction…and his, for that fact. That last comment was “No one has ever slapped me before!”

@Zaku Good point. Her eyes were on his, and she might not have noticed it at all if he hadn’t called attention to it. Maybe it broke his concentration, but then that’s on him. And/or maybe he was trying to be goofy about it. In other bloopers from this series*, he mixes goofiness with ribaldry or scatological humor, and often cracks up his castmates and the crew. If that’s what he was going for this time, it didn’t go over well.

Perhaps I interpreted it in light of the Entourage episode I’d seen earlier.

Here is a clip from that episode: https://youtu.be/T4JS4e5KdsI

This is fiction, and I don’t know if this reflects something that might actually happen (hence my question), but again, Brooke Shields is playing herself here.

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*Here’s a compilation of Pratt’s bloopers from P&R. https://youtu.be/AMlyrdR1Uwg

I forget which actor once stated regarding “arousal” while shooting a love scene: “Pardon me if I do and pardon me if I don’t.” One because they are just acting, the other because it’s supposed to be a sexy scene.

A little more about those Chris Pratt bloopers: in the compilation linked above, there is one in which he is naked (with his private parts obscured by a superimposed black oval). It turns out he was reprimanded by the network for this stunt. This is interesting in light of more recent events, for it reveals that (a) the network had mechanisms in place for dealing with this sort of impropriety, (b) they were swiftly activated, and ( c) although Pratt’s star was rising at the time, he was not yet high enough on the totem pole to get away with this behavior, even though it was much less serious than other misbehaviors we have heard about that were perpetrated with impunity.

Here is a clip from a BBC talk show in which Pratt talks about the incident. It seems to me that his antics in this particular incident were artistically justified, and evidently Amy Poehler agreed.

https://youtu.be/kg8dSfiiRqI