Emma Thompson hits back at Sean Bean intimacy coordinator comments

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The Times, the Game Of Thrones and Snowpiercer star suggested that these specialists, who have become common place on film and TV sets since the rise of the #MeToo movement, would “spoil the spontaneity” of sex scenes.“I don’t know if you were speaking to someone who found it distracting,” Thompson said in an interview on Fitz & Wippa for Australia’s NovaFM (per People), “but [in] another conversation, you might find that people go, ‘It made me comfortable, it made me feel safe, it made me feel as though I was able to do this work.’ ”“So intimacy coordinators are the most fantastic introduction in our work.

And no, you can’t just ‘let it flow,’ ” Thompson continued. “There’s a camera there and a crew, it’s not on your own in a hotel room.

You’re surrounded by a bunch of blokes carrying things. So, it’s not a comfortable situation, full stop.”Of having an intimacy coordinator on set in the room, Bean had said: “It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things.

Somebody saying, ‘Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his thing…”He added: “I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise.”Bean was also criticised by West Side Story star Rachel Zegler, who had filmed sex scenes with 25-year-old actor Ansel Elgort on set.intimacy coordinators establish an environment of safety for actors.