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\n\tFlorence Pugh appeared on the latest episode of \u201cThe Louis Theroux Podcast\u201d and spoke openly about her experience with intimacy coordinators on film sets. Intimacy coordinators have become an industry standard, although the job has proven divisive in Hollywood. Pugh described the profession as one that makes sure sex scenes are filmed with the utmost safety for the actors involved, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s not to get in the way. It\u2019s not to confuse, it\u2019s not to make things more complicated or make things more awkward. I\u2019ve had good ones and bad ones.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tGwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lawrence both made headlines recently for saying they didn\u2019t feel the need to use the intimacy coordinators hired on their sets because they trusted their co-stars to be professional.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe did not have [an intimacy coordinator], or maybe we did but we didn\u2019t really [use it]\u2026 I felt really safe with Rob [Pattinson]. He is not pervy,\u201d Lawrence said about the making of \u201cDie My Love.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tPaltrow said on that the set of \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d she told the intimacy coordinator to \u201cstep a little back\u201d when she was filming intimate scenes with Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, adding: \u201cI don\u2019t know how it is for kids who are starting out, but\u2026 if someone is like, \u2018Okay, and then he\u2019s going to put his hand\u00a0here<\/em>,\u2019\u2009 I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tPugh noted that she filmed many sex scenes without an intimacy coordinator in the past. While she\u2019s always been \u201cquite confident\u201d and \u201cquite happy in my skin,\u201d the Oscar nominee remembered times when someone on set used \u201ccompletely inappropriate\u201d to direct a sex scene and there wasn\u2019t an intimacy coordinator present to protect her.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBut my view is changing about it as well, because I\u2019m now having fantastic experiences with intimacy coordinators,\u201d Pugh said about filming sex scenes. \u201cHowever, that being said, I\u2019ve also had a shit example where someone just made it so weird and so awkward and really wasn\u2019t helpful and kind of was just like wanting to be a part of the set in a way that wasn\u2019t helpful, and I think it\u2019s a job that\u2019s still figuring itself out.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI will say that I\u2019ve been able to understand better meaning now through working with great ones in sex scenes,\u201d Pugh said about \u201cfinding 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.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cEverybody\u2019s just kind of working away to chip away at the scene. And I think when I worked with a fantastic coordinator, I was like, \u2018Oh, this is what I\u2019ve been missing, understanding the dance of intimacy as opposed to just shooting a sex scene,’\u201d Pugh said. \u201cThere are good ones and bad ones, and it\u2019s through the good ones that I have learned how effective it can really be.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tPugh credited intimacy coordinators with giving female actors more agency on set. She said, \u201cIt\u2019s a bit stickier\u201d being a woman during filming because \u201cyou can\u2019t really be a problem because people will say that you\u2019re a nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI remember I was doing a crying scene and there were just all of these specific beats that I needed to get, and specifically on specific lines,\u201d Pugh remembered. \u201cAnd we did it maybe six times, and each time you have to start with no tears and then gear up. So you have to stay in it. And we got it and the director wanted to go again. And when I\u2019m in that state, I\u2019m a bit mushy, so I\u2019m like, \u2018Okay, we\u2019ll do it again.’\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tPugh said that as a woman, she would never speak up on set and tell the director that no more takes were needed of such an emotionally exhausting scene. It took her male co-star to do that on her behalf.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMy co-star went out to the director and said: \u2018Don\u2019t do that, man. Don\u2019t put her through that. She\u2019s got it. We got it. You\u2019ve got the close-up, you\u2019ve got the wide, don\u2019t do that,’\u201d Pugh remembered. \u201cAnd I realized when I was in the tent, I was like, \u2018Oh, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to have said that because that wouldn\u2019t have been received well.’\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe Louis Theroux Podcast\u201d\u00a0is available on Spotify now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Florence Pugh appeared on the latest episode of \u201cThe Louis Theroux Podcast\u201d and spoke openly about her experience with intimacy coordinators on film sets. Intimacy coordinators have become an industry standard, although the job has proven divisive in Hollywood. 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