Amy Huberman has revealed that watching her on-screen kissing scenes with her husband Brian O’Driscoll is, as expected, very uncomfortable.
The popular Irish actress appeared on The Late Late Show tonight alongside Maria Doyle Kennedy to talk about their RTÉ legal drama Striking Out, which returned to our screens earlier this month.
Amy, who married Irish rugby star Brian back in 2010, admitted that she “disappears” when her on-screen kissing scenes are on the TV.
“I’m not there, I’ll just disappear. I just go anywhere but the TV room,” Amy told Ryan Tubridy.
“I’m anywhere but the TV room” – @amyhuberman on what it’s like at home with @BrianODriscoll when she’s kissing other fellas on screen! #latelate pic.twitter.com/CVKPdMvh1u
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“I can’t, I don’t really love watching the stuff anyway, and I definitely would not enjoy watching that with my husband,” she continued.
When asked how Brian felt about it all, Amy replied, “He actually knows James really well, they’ve golfed together quite a bit, so yeah there’s quite a lot of slagging going on between those, but it’s all in good spirits!”
The actress and her co-star Maria gave their thoughts on the backlash in some quarters to the #MeToo movement.
“I read some of the French actresses came out, and I just could not agree with what they were saying, but they were more saying like ‘oh, a pinch on the bum is great, what are you on about?’ kind of, and I was just like, no, people get to decide about their boundaries and about their bodies and things like that, and I don’t think at all that it’s gone too far,” Maria said.
#StrikingOut‘s @mariadkennedy and @amyhuberman giving their thoughts on the backlash in some quarters to the #metoo movement #latelate pic.twitter.com/KeieU7YVgq
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“Maybe there are a few people who would be crazy or vindictive or something, but I’ve never seen that side of it, I’ve always seen the other,” she continued.
Amy said, “Well, it’s fear as well. The fear of not being believed and not being supported. I think as a movement in general, you know there can’t be this blanket thing, life doesn’t work like that.”
“But I think when you take the essence of what we’re talking about, as Maria said, I think it can only be seen as a positive thing when it is encouraging and supporting people to tell their stories, and you know if it’s subjective to them and their boundaries and what they feel is wrong and misconduct and that needs to be heard. And it’s great that there’s a platform to be heard,” she added.
