Sean Bean is not keen on intimacy coordinators, censorship, or fan conventions, apparently. The Game of Thrones alum shared these beliefs in an interview with U.K.’s The Times, saying that intimacy coordinators on film and television sets “spoil the spontaneity” of the scene.

The Times reports that Bean—who memorably played Ned Stark on Game of Thrones—said that working with intimacy coordinators would “inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things. Somebody saying, ‘Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his thing…’”

“I should imagine it slows down the thrust of it," he said. “Ha, not the thrust, that’s the wrong word. It would spoil the spontaneity.” 

He then clarified: “I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise.”

Bean went on to wax poetic about the good old days of filming intimate scenes, reminiscing about shooting 1993’s Lady Chatterly opposite Joely Richardson. “Lady Chatterly was spontaneous,” he said. “It was a joy. We had a good chemistry between us, and we knew what we were doing was unusual. Because she was married, I was married. But we were following the story. We were trying to portray the truth of what DH Lawrence wrote.”

It’s not just intimacy coordinators that Bean could apparently live without. The actor decried censorship, name-checking an intimate scene he shot for season two of Snowpiercer where he plays Mr. Wilford. In the scene, he gets busy with Lena Hall’s Miss Audrey with the help of a mango—but, according to Bean, parts of the mango scene didn’t make the final edit. “I think they cut a bit out actually,” he lamented. “Often the best work you do, where you’re trying to push the boundaries, and the very nature of it is experimental, gets censored when TV companies or the advertisers say it’s so much. It’s a nice scene, quite surreal, dream-like and abstract. And mango-esque.”

The interviewer noted that intimacy coordinators became more common as a protection for actors following the #MeToo movement. “I suppose it depends on the actress,” Bean responded, and used Hall as an example. “This one had a musical cabaret background, so she was up for anything.” An accomplished musical theater actor, Hall won a Tony for her work in Hedwig and the Angry Inch opposite Neil Patrick Harris.

Last and probably least, Bean—who also played Boromir in the Lord of the Rings trilogy—denounced fan conventions, saying they are “just a cattle market.” “I didn’t like how the organizers treated the fans,” he said, referencing an unnamed LOTR convention he attended once where he attempted to write messages in addition to signing autographs, but was cut off by the staff. “They’d say, ‘No, no, just a signature. He needs to pay more for you writing a message.’ And these fans are good-natured, positive people who were getting tossed around and overcharged for things.” Well, he’s got a point there.