Millie Bobby Brown has recently been called out by an intimacy coordinator after bragging about kissing a co-star without his consent as well as physically hurting him on set.
In a new video shared on Netflix's official TikTok page, Brown recalled her time on the set of Enola Holmes 2, talking about some of her stand-out moments from the experience.
The sequel, which was released back in October, saw Brown's character, Enola Holmes, finally kiss Lord Tewkesbury, played by her co-star Louis Partridge, after teasing a potential romance between the two during the first movie.
One scene shows Holmes repeatedly punching Tewkesbury in an attempt to teach him how to fight, before grabbing him by the jacket and pulling him in for a kiss.
When discussing the scene during the Netflix interview, Brown revealed that she had been the one to take lead.
"Right on the rehearsal I grabbed his face and kissed him and he was like...", she recalled, mimicking the shock-horror on Partridge's face.
"It was so cute really seeing her [Holmes] take the lead," the actress went on. "And also seeing a girl just make the first move is just really exciting."
Brown then went on to talk about how Partridge had to tell her to stop punching him after she was making contact with his body a little too hard.
"Because Louis is a good friend I just kept punching him, I wasn’t doing stunts, I really was hurting him," she said. "By the end of it, he said: 'Millie can you just fake punch me,' I was fully just getting him right in the stomach.
"It’s a very cute scene and I think fans are going to love it," Millie concluded.
But it turns out, not everyone did.
Upon seeing the video, critics headed to the comment section to slam Brown for bragging about hurting her co-star, with one person even going as far as stitching the video to offer her some advice.
Jessica Steinrock, who is a well-known intimacy coordinator on the platform, had a few things to say about the video, emphasizing that her story was actually not "cute" at all.
"Ooh no, I love Millie Bobby Brown but this is not the cute story you think it is. I’m sure she and her scene partner have a lot of rapport built up and a great amount of trust, but we should never be surprising anyone during a fight or intimate scene ever," Steinrock said.
She continued: "At the end of the day, this basically means she didn’t ask consent to kiss him, and when your scene partner reacts in surprise after you’ve kissed them that means the communication didn’t happen the way it really needs to."
The intimacy coordinator added that there was also a power imbalance between the two young stars.
"Little things like this can escalate over time, and frankly she has more power in that situation than he does because she’s a really well-known star... When we do spicy scenes, we love keeping light, having fun, but consent is mandatory.
"For the record, I loved Enola Holmes 2, but next time we have to ask consent," she concluded.
Social media users rallied around Steinrock, thanking her for breaking down the issue.
So far, there has been no further comment made by Brown or any of her representatives.
