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The cast of The Bold and the Beautiful is getting a major makeover. The soap opera will officially resume production this week, but in order to ensure that actors remain safe amid the coronavirus pandemic, all close contact scenes have been reimagined. In an interview with Forbes, executive producer and head writer Bradley Bell explained that sex scenes will be particularly tricky, but revealed that he’s come up with a solution: employing blow-up dolls to keep his characters warm at night.
While many Hollywood productions remain shut down, The Bold and the Beautiful announced last week that it would resume filming today, just five days after the state of California and Los Angeles County lifted production restrictions. Bell has been open about the daytime soap opera’s trailblazing mentality, telling The Hollywood Reporter that he feels they are “ready to go” after months on hiatus. “Safety is our utmost concern and will be as we return to production.”
To that end, the Emmy-winning soap will be enacting some drastic social distancing measures on set. “We’ll really rely on our directors to employ all techniques. [Actors will] shoot eight feet apart, following all the safety standards, but use the tricks of the business,” he told THR.
When it comes to close-up kissing scenes, things are trickier. Bell said that actors will go through the kiss routine separately, and editors will splice them together to make the romance appear seamless. “They’ll look like they’re nose to nose, in the throes of passion,” the EP told Forbes. “But they’ll be shooting scenes all by themselves.”
The Bold and the Beautiful‘s patented steamy scenes require a bit more effort on actors’ parts. In some situations, the stars’ real-life spouses (all of whom will be tested for COVID-19 upon arrival) will serve as stand-ins when physical intimacy is required; in others, producers will turn to life-sized dummies. “We have some life-like blow up dolls that have been sitting around here for the past 15 years, that we’ve used for various other stories — (like) when people were presumed dead,” revealed Bell. “We’re dusting off the dolls and putting new wigs and make-up on them and they’ll be featured in love scenes.”
Because nothing says romance quite like dusty blow-up dolls!
The Bold and the Beautiful airs every weekday at 1:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT on CBS.
