The former from what I can tell. People were angry that the magazine/interviewer was treating her like an object, forcing her to drape herself on Colin, be near Coin, ect. I still haven’t seen a video of this interview.
The video can be found here, and the joke from Emilie and JMO about instructions at about the 9:00 mark. The instructions cam from Entertainment Tonight that JMo be next to Colin. But that then raises the issue of how much was JMo and how much was ET. For example, did JMo really have to drape her arm over Colin during the interview? Colin’s body language is visibly closed and hands off, whereas JMo was leaning in on him with her arm on his shoulder throughout the interview. By contast, Lana was also seated closely next to him, but even on a tight couch, Lana’s was leaning into Colin and her arms weren’t angled towards him the way JMo’s were.
Great thanks! It does look bad, I agree. And it really speaks to something much larger in culture about relationships and power dynamics. I wouldn’t for a second imagine that Jen and Colin wouldn’t do photo ops together or have to be flirty in these things because it is part of their job to sell a certain image. Using another TV show, for example, Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards have to do similar poledancing for Arrow. But being ordered to do it for the sake of hungry eyes is disconcerting.