In an effort to protect actors from exploitation during sex scenes, television and movie sets have started hiring “intimacy coordinators” to ensure intimate scenes are appropriately choreographed.
, which trains intimacy coordinators, told Reuters, ““We have stunt coordinators. We really take care of people in those kind of scenes. But scenes of intimacy have kind of been left a little too alone.”she’d had some deeply uncomfortable onsetSteinrock, who has also worked as an actor, recalled feeling vulnerable one time, when the hand of a fellow actor slipped lower than usual during a scene.
“I found myself thinking, ‘is it because he likes me? Is it because he is more in the moment today?’ Even though my character might be ok with that, me - the actor - was not. But I found it really difficult to have that conversation,” she said. It’s not necessarily that intimacy coordinators exist to stop outright sexual assault, although there have been accusations about that happening on set—they also help show actors how to move with each other respectfully, without killing the scene. “When I first began in the business, I remember being told, You can’t touch that person here when you are kissing,” SAG-AFTRA president
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