Ruth Wilson left The Affair because of ‘too many sex scenes’

Other broader incidents seem to bolster claims of the show’s environment. One source described shoots attended by people that had no reason to be there, or monitors carelessly displaying sex scenes to individuals outside production. These instances were chalked up by sources to the fact that Showtime didn’t employ an Affair intimacy co-ordinator — essentially a sex-scene wrangler, a position increasingly popular in the #MeToo era — until the show’s last season. At one point, Wilson’s body double sued the network, claiming she was fired after objecting to a call sheet that described her as “Alison Sexytime Double”. The case was eventually settled.