Spoilers if you haven't caught the fifth episode of Westworld "Contrapasso."
Westworld has been promising us some wild and crazy sex scenes since the time it was still getting off the ground, and while the show has never shied away from nudity, it took until Episode 5 before the crazy scenes we've been promised since before the show aired finally made their way onto the small screen. The scenes were pretty explicit and even drew some criticism even before the episode aired, thanks to the wild nudity clause Westworld had its actors sign. Recently, supervising director Richard J. Lewis explained why Westworld's orgy scene wasn't porn and was, in fact, pointful. Here's what he had to say:
I think all of us have a modicum of taste that keeps us from taking it too far into the pornographic world and keeps it in the sensual world. I think that's important.
Westworld is all about excess, mostly on the humans end. The theme park sells the fact that it can fulfill anyone's heart's desire. And while this means family fun for some parkgoers, others want to track down bad guys, have raunchy sex outtings and even occasionally become the bad guys themselves. During Episode 5, Dolores began to explore the new side of herself that has slowly been making itself apparent over the last several weeks. She ended up encountering an uncouth area of the park called Pariah while traveling alongside William and Logan. The two men ended up nabbing explosives for the wild townspeople in Pariah that counted thieves and criminals amongst its habitants.
For the deed, the two then were invited to an orgy filled with people covered in gold paint and little else. The whole thing was pretty erotic, but Richard J. Lewis also told THR that the team made sure to sign on the right people for the roles. In fact, they even had special extras contracted for the nude scenes.
We hired what they called 'special extras,' 'special background players,' who were willing to participate. We also had a sex stylist who made sure things looked properly choreographed in that regard. It was all hands on deck, to say the silly pun. We were trying to make things feel elegant and graceful and beautiful and strange.
This follows the statement that HBO made after the wild nudity clause for the series was mentioned some months back. The subscription cable network at the time mentioned that it wanted to provide a comfortable environment for its employees and having more of that glitzy and artsy vibe probably helped to achieve that.
If you'd like to see where Westworld is heading next, you can catch new episodes on Sunday night at 9 p.m. ET, only on HBO. We do know that the final episodes are expected to blow our minds. To find out when the rest of your favorites are hitting the schedule, check out our fall TV guide.
