SPOILER ALERT: This text incorporates spoilers from Season 3, Episode 3 of “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” now streaming on Max.
Pauline Chalamet’s character Kimberly in “The Intercourse Lives of School Ladies” isn’t any stranger to severely humbling experiences. She is endearingly naive and well-intentioned, however generally her overeagerness to do good leads her to some hilariously cringe-worthy scenes.
Within the third episode of Season 3, “4 to a Suite,” there’s a notably awkward scene with a vibrating dildo in a backpack that will make most viewers wish to flip off their TVs simply to keep away from the secondhand embarrassment. Chalamet admits she too felt this manner whereas filming.
This season, Kimberly begins seeing a really engaging bisexual pupil at Essex and feels anxious that she may not be adventurous sufficient to fulfill his wants, so she goes to a intercourse store. This results in a really awkward scene that will get exponentially worse when Kimberly drops her backpack on the ground, and the dildo begins violently shaking.
“When the props [team] confirmed me how a lot the bag was gonna shake, I used to be pink within the face. Mortifying. Like, ‘Please, can we not make it shake as a lot? Please!’” says Chalamet, nonetheless blushing. She tried to persuade the group to make it extra of an audible impact, however her request was ignored for the sake of comedy. In between laughs, she feedback, “Oh my God! I actually was making an attempt to close that factor up. I used to be like, possibly I can break it and we have now to make use of one thing else.”
Nevertheless mortifying, Chalamet says she understands the place her character is coming from. She says that a part of taking part in a 20-year-old faculty pupil is bearing on these studying experiences. Particularly for this scene, she says, “It’s younger considering. It’s very naive. It’s type of like how I wish to be an ally, and fewer about, how do you want me to be an ally.”
Chalamet notes that taking part in a university pupil excites her, including that this coming-of-age interval in an individual’s life has all the time fascinated her. “You’re ranging from a spot the place it’s like, ‘That is what I consider essentially, and if you happen to deviate from this thought, you’re incorrect.’ So, when different issues in life occur, and also you begin to type of see issues otherwise, you create extra depth to your opinion.”
