{"id":2250452,"date":"2026-01-26T04:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2250452"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:01:23","slug":"industry-kiernan-shipka-talks-intimacy-coordination-on-that-scene-with-kit-harington-marisa-abela-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/industry-kiernan-shipka-talks-intimacy-coordination-on-that-scene-with-kit-harington-marisa-abela-entertainment-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Industry\u2019: Kiernan Shipka Talks Intimacy Coordination on That Scene With Kit Harington &#038; Marisa Abela | Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for\u00a0<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/industry\/\">Industry<\/a><\/em> Season 4 Episode 3.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1238640\/industry-season-4-episode-1-kiernan-shipka-charlie-heaton\/\">HBO\u2019s <em>Industry<\/em><\/a> is always swinging for the fences, and it just delivered one of its most audacious scenes in Season 4\u2019s third episode. It was a sex scene involving <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/marisa-abela\/\">Marisa Abela<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/kit-harington\/\">Kit Harington<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/kiernan-shipka\/\">Kiernan Shipka<\/a>, one that Shipka says was choreographed in advance to give the actors a framework to hold up their performances. That\u2019s the value of intimacy coordinating, the <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/mad-men\/\">Mad Men<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>alum agrees.<\/p>\n<p>Yasmin (Abela) and Henry (Harington) were in Vienna on Tender business with Whitney (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/max-minghella\/\">Max Minghella<\/a>) and his assistant, and Hayley (Shipka). They stayed in a castle with a princess and her son, who was investing in the company but casually dropped thinly veiled antisemitism during dinner, and whom Henry called a fascist behind closed doors (Yasmin brushed off these concerns, but that came back to bite her later). After dinner, Hayley went on an unsuccessful Raya date, and Yasmin propositioned Hayley when she came to their bedroom with some statements for the married couple to review.<\/p>\n<p>Yasmin has hooked up with older women in <em>Industry<\/em>\u2018s previous seasons, and she was always in a submissive role. This time, she flipped that script and played the dominating role with her husband and Hayley. Yasmin smoked a cigarette and watched while Hayley and Henry hooked up on their bed, and then Yasmin joined in at the end. This is all after Hayley flirted with Yasmin at Henry\u2019s birthday party in Episode 2, not knowing if Yas would bite. She did, but nothing happened until Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>Shipka tells TV Insider that they worked with an intimacy coordinator to give the scene structure and the actors free rein within the agreed framework.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat scene in particular had a lot of literal choreography in that the room was a very specific room, and there\u2019s a lot of different dimensions to that scene because it starts as a dialogue scene,\u201d she says. \u201cIt starts very much so you kind of think you know where it\u2019s going, but also it could go another way. So there was a lot to get to. We worked with the intimacy coordinator, and there was the physical, let\u2019s map this out, let\u2019s figure out where we\u2019re going to go so that we don\u2019t have to think about that when we\u2019re actually shooting it. And we can think about these characters and their intentions and what this scene is really about underneath the physical stuff. It was kind of a process in that way, but that part of it was pre-planned and rehearsed, so that when we got there on the day, that was not the first thing that we had to think about or make stuff up on the spot, which was nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the whole point of intimacy coordination, Shipka says. \u201cLet\u2019s get a structure to this so that we all feel like we know what we\u2019re doing, and then we can get there on the day and try things and figure out what the scene means as well,\u201d Shipka adds.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn\u2019t any pressure surrounding any of Hayley\u2019s risque scenes this season, the\u00a0<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina\/\">Chilling Adventures of Sabrina<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>alum shares.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1241399\" style=\"width: 865px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1241399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HBO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s just so fun and chill on the show. I felt that throughout the season, when we would be doing these really intense scenes and these really vulnerable scenes, and then the camera cuts, and not in an unprofessional way, but everyone\u2019s just chill and easy and talking about their weekend and what we\u2019re going to do and what we\u2019re excited about,\u201d she says. \u201cThe environment is very chill, and I think that makes the intense material much more manageable to do because the vibe on set is just so good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayley and Yasmin will continue to have an interesting relationship this season. Shipka says that \u201cYasmin sees herself in Hayley,\u201d which could be good or bad, depending on the circumstances. Regardless, Shipka thinks \u201cthat they have legitimate chemistry, for what it\u2019s worth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s interesting because I\u2019m like, is it a chicken or an egg thing?\u201d she wonders about Hayley and Yasmin\u2019s attraction to each other. \u201cBecause obviously when Hayley and Yasmine meet, Hayley makes that initial little like, \u2018Or I could get into bed with you\u2019 thing to see if she bites and Yasmin does. And then all of a sudden, there\u2019s this spiritual cosmic shift in their realities where now they\u2019re in each other\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shipka loves this character and was thrilled to play her. She\u2019s done the dark, twisted, sexy role before with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/swimming-with-sharks\/\"><em>Swimming With Sharks<\/em><\/a>, but the actor says that Hayley was \u201ca very new character for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve played people who have had maybe waffs of Hayley before. I know that tone, I know that sort of psyche, but she was a new beast and a lot of the stuff that I do in the show this season is stuff that I haven\u2019t done before on camera,\u201d Shipka explains. \u201cSo there was a lot of newness, but the stuff I get nervous about and scared about is more, oh, I really want to do her justice, and I want her arc to feel earned, and I want this character to feel like a human and make sense. And I want to connect in that scene. That\u2019s the kind of stuff that I\u2019m really thinking about before and wanting to be present for and get right, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s sort of a weird, maybe not exactly perfect term to use for my approach to doing scenes,\u201d she adds. \u201cBut when it came to the big, bold, audacious stuff that this show tackles, that stuff I was just excited to do, and I felt like I was in good hands, too, with everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Industry<\/strong><\/em><strong>, Sundays, 9\/8c, HBO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wfmz.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for\u00a0Industry Season 4 Episode 3.] HBO\u2019s Industry is always swinging for the fences, and it just delivered one of its most audacious scenes in Season 4\u2019s third episode. It was a sex scene involving Marisa Abela, Kit Harington, and Kiernan Shipka, one that Shipka says was choreographed in advance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2250453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21738,21902,137882,137883],"class_list":["post-2250452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-news","tag-ntvb_media","tag-syndicate","tag-syndicate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Industry-Kiernan-Shipka-Talks-Intimacy-Coordination-on-That-Scene-With.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250454,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250452\/revisions\/2250454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}