TV Intimacy Coordinator Analyzes ‘The Idol”s Premiere Episode, Says It Depicts ‘Accurate Pushback’ On Set But ‘Felt Betrayed They Made Fun Of Us’

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Ever since “The Idol” premiered earlier this month, there’s been much critique about its sexual material, including a scene in the premiere episode where pop star Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) decides to flash her nipples during a photoshoot, despite the nudity rider in her contract.

In the scene, her intimacy coordinator (played by Scott Turner Schofield) immediately interrupts the shoot for her album cover and reminds the photographer (Eddy Chen) about the nudity rider, which only permits Jocelyn to show her “side-boob, under-boob and side flank.” He emphasizes that the contract has been reviewed by “the label and her people,” and that any changes require the photo session to be delayed 48 hours, even though Jocelyn took it upon herself to expose her breasts. READ MORE: HBO Denies ‘The Idol’ Season 2 Cancellation Reports Amid Backlash: ‘It Hasn’t Been Determined’ She asks the coordinator, “I’m not allowed to show my body?”, who then responds, “Not in the general human rights structure of it all.” Then, Jocelyn’s manager Chaim (Hank Azaria) gets involved — he shoves the coordinator behind a door and pays a random passerby $5,000 to keep him locked in the bathroom until the shoot is over.

While the scene depicts a fictional coordinator, the information about the structure surrounding intimacy coordination wasn’t necessarily inaccurate, as per a real-life intimacy coordinator named Marci Liroff — with no connection to “The Idol” — who evaluated the scene for Variety.  “To be honest, I had a very visceral reaction.

I was appalled,” Liroff — whose credits as an intimacy coordinator include “Hightown”, “From Scratch”, and “This Is Us” — told the outlet. “I’m not alone in this, in terms of my intimacy coordinator