Intimacy coordinators are catching on in film and TV, but one says it’s female directors and actors who can be uneasy about the role
When Keira Knightley declared last week that she would no longer shoot sex scenes directed by men, she became the latest actor to express her discomfort with an issue that has come under particular scrutiny since the #MeToo movement of 2017.
In the intervening years, studios have begun hiring “intimacy coordinators” to oversee sex scenes to ensure that actors feel comfortable, but in an interview with the Radio Times, one prominent intimacy coordinator has revealed that the resistance she’s experienced has actually been from “female directors and actors”.
