Florence Pugh says she’s had “good and bad” experiences with intimacy coordinators while making movies.
There to ensure sex scenes are safe and consensual, the role has become a topic of debate as they become more common during film productions.
The Academy Award nominee told documentarian Louis Theroux that working with intimacy coordinators has been a mixed bag, but she understands their importance.
On the Tuesday episode of Theroux’s podcast, Pugh said, “It’s not to get in the way. It’s not to confuse, it’s not to make things more complicated or make things more awkward. It’s simply to make sure that everybody is happy with what they’re creating.”
“I’ve had good ones and bad ones,” she went on, noting how the position wasn’t commonplace when she started off in the industry.
The “Dune” star added that while she’s “quite confident” and “quite happy in my skin,” she does remember situations where filmmakers’ requests felt “completely inappropriate,” and it would have been nice to have had an intimacy coordinator on set to support her.
While Pugh told Theroux she’s mostly had “fantastic experiences” with intimacy experts, she said she’s dealt with coordinators who just made things “weird.”
“I’ve also had a shit example where someone just made it so weird and so awkward and really wasn’t helpful and kind of was just like wanting to be a part of the set in a way that wasn’t helpful, and I think it’s a job that’s still figuring itself out,” she explained.
Breaking down how intimacy coordinators can have the most positive impact on a film, she said the good ones focus on “finding the story of what it is, what kind of sex is it, how do you touch each other, how long have you been having sex for.”
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