You’ve probably heard of stunt coordinators and fight choreographers — professionals who help make action-packed sequences look like they’re the real deal. Now, there’s a new role that’s increasingly growing in both popularity and necessity. It’s called an intimacy coordinator: specialists who help a production’s cast and crew as they create scenes featuring everything from kisses to sex onscreen and onstage.
The interest in this role took off after the #MeToo movement, but it originated years before that, with professionals like Ita O’Brien writing the guidelines and teaching classes that would spur a whole field of trained intimacy professionals.
Now, intimacy coordinators are frequently working alongside directors and superstars, assuring those sexy scenes are realistic and also safe for all involved.
Two seasoned intimacy coordinators take us behind the scenes to learn more.
Guests:
- Lizzy Talbot, an original member of the association Intimacy Coordinators and Directors of the US and UK. She has worked on more than 250 episodes of television and 30 movies, including the global hit “Bridgerton,” “Babygirl” starring Nicole Kidman and Netflix’s “Hunting Wives.”
- Robbie Taylor Hunt, a Kiwi-Brit intimacy coordinator and writer based in London. He’s passionate about queer intimacy and has worked on shows and movies including “Red, White & Royal Blue,” “Femme,” “Pillion,” “You” and “Big Boys.”
