Alina Herself Takes Us Inside Shadow & Bone’s Sexiest (And Most Complicated) Scene

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Alina Starkov took the responsibility of representing the female sexual experience very seriously and refused the innocent/clueless roles films put on women.

's “Show Me Who You Are.” That sequence comes minutes later, when Kirigan whisks Alina into a private study for some, if you catch my squall. If the ensuing hookup — and near-sex scene — between Alina and Kirigan feels particularly passionate from“The changes that were made from the books to make it more of Alina’s decision are really interesting,” Mei Li told Refinery29 over Zoom earlier this month.

While Alina has been “othered” due to her race, as Mei Li recognized, she knows Alina has likely had romantic and sexual experiences at this stage in her life. As we see over the course ofseason 1, Alina’s “friend” Malyen “Mal” Oretsev has big, complicated feelings for her. The Darkling is immediately smitten. It’s impossible other people haven’t come before with similar emotions for Alina. Ifwas going to comment on a woman’s sexuality, Mei Li hoped to embody something she “believes” in.

Sadly, the same cannot be said for Alina. Her hookup with Kirigan is abruptly interrupted due to deadly chaos in the Little Palace. With Kirigan out of the study, Grisha mentor Baghra appears to shatter Alina’s lovestruck bubble. It’s here that Alina finds out the man she was justhistorical Darkling, who created the Shadow Fold and now has a dastardly plan for Alina. Kirigan’s story about being The Darkling’s unfairly maligned descendant is a lie. I hope that lots of people can see ....

“When the betrayal becomes apparent and he does these awful, awful things, we, the audience, are conflicted,” she explained of the relationship, “I think that Alina feels very betrayed, but there’s a part of her that does kind of want to be near him still. We see tiny flashes of it in the last two episodes, where she’s of two minds. That’s interesting. I hope people get into real, heated arguments.” is unpredictable.

 

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