

Lena Hall, who shared a sex scene with Bean on the show Snowpiercer, also gave her take. Our job as actors is to make it not look technical. The Good Place and She-Hulk actor Jameela Jamil also weighed in. “It should only be technical,” she wrote. Spontaneity in intimate scenes can be unsafe. “I was extremely grateful for the one we had on WSS- they showed grace to a newcomer like myself + educated those around me who’ve had years of experience. “ntimacy coordinators establish an environment of safety for actors,” she wrote. In response to Bean’s comments, other actors sounded off about their benefits, including West Side Story star Rachel Zegler. Actresses respond to Bean’s comments about intimacy coordinators Happily, intimacy coordinators don’t seem to be going anywhere. I think we can chalk up his take to having come up during a different time in Hollywood, back when abuse was still happening but way less discussed. We were trying to portray the truth of what DH Lawrence wrote.īean is definitely giving off some some “back in my day” energy here. We had a good chemistry between us, and we knew what we were doing was unusual. I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise…‘Lady Chatterly’ was spontaneous.

“Somebody saying, ‘Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his thing…” “It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things,” Bean told The Times. Just ask Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones veteran Sean Bean, who remembered how they used to do it on the set of Lady Chatterley in 1993. Intimacy coordinators are becoming something of an industry standard, but not everyone is on board. And I’m also here for the producers, to make sure that they know they’re doing their best to make sure the set is safe.” Although it looks real enough on camera, for actors, sex scenes are work, and Rodis helps it feel that way by “separating the sexuality between the characters and what’s actually happening between the actors.” This job seemed more pertinent after the explosion of the MeToo movement, which called attention to how women in the industry were often preyed upon by men who abused their authority without any consequences.Īlicia Rodis, who worked as an intimacy coordinator on the HBO show The Deuce, which is about the American porn industry in the ’70s, explained her job like this: “I am here to give a voice to actors, especially actors who feel like they don’t have one. Over the last few years, Hollywood has started to make greater use of intimacy coordinators, who help manage the filming of sex scenes in film and TV.
