Actor Frank Langella on Thursday detailed a crucial moment that led to him being fired from Netflix s The Fall of the House of Usher last month. Netflix made the move after investigating allegations of misconduct that included sexual harassment of a co-star.

In an essay for Deadline in which he said he was unjustly canceled, Langella wrote of a romantic scene that appeared to be at the center of the accusations.

On March 25 of this year, I was performing a love scene with the actress playing my young wife. Both of us were fully clothed. I was sitting on a couch, she was standing in front of me. The director called cut. He touched my leg, said the actress. That was not in the blocking. She then turned and walked off the set, followed by the director and the intimacy coordinator. I attempted to follow but was asked to give her some space. I waited for approximately one hour, and was then told she was not returning to set and we were wrapped.

In a conversation with human resources a week later, the Oscar-nominated, Tony-winning Frost/Nixon star admitted to objecting to the intimacy coordinators suggestion of where to place his hands, he wrote.

It was a love scene on camera. Legislating the placement of hands, to my mind, is ludicrous. It undermines instinct and spontaneity, he explained.