In a post-MeToo era, intimacy coordinators will now be on set for every production featuring nudity.
Filming a kiss in 1926. Things have changed dramatically in the industry but only in recent yearsOne of the turning points happened on the set of HBO series, about the blossoming porn industry in 1970s New York. Emily Meade, who played a sex worker and porn star, spoke to bosses when she found some of her nude scenes overwhelming.
"In theatre, it is a four-week process. In TV and film it has to be much quicker, so you work intensively with the actors before getting to the set," compares Dor.Chelsea Pace works on off-Broadway shows and TV series: 'Intimacy is a storytelling tool, it has to serve the story'Amanda Blumenthal, an LA-based intimacy advisor on Showtime's highly sexualised series The Affair, says the job is"part mediator, part counsellor, part choreographer".
The new SAG-AFTRA guidelines cover the pre-production stage, with the intimacy coordinator meeting one-on-one with performers prior to the rehearsal, and making sure the costume department provides appropriate nudity garments, prosthetics and barriers to cover genitalia, such a silicone padding or hard fabrics.
Now, intimacy coordinators are bringing a new element to the set - desexualised language to interpret the stage directions.groping another character, but the actors are making muscle-level contact," explains Pace. "We are not the sex police. Sometimes directors think we are there to tell them 'no' to a moment of nudity they want to have. That's not what we do," says Pace.Zendaya stars in Euphoria, a hard-hitting teen drama with graphic depictions of sex - and Amanda Blumenthal was hired as its intimacy coordinator
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