Empowering Actors: The Vital Role of Intimacy Coordinators in Film & TV

What it is that you do, why that is so valuable on the set.

So an intimacy coordinator, they're the folks who keep the actors safe for their intimate scenes on film and tv. So when it comes to simulated sex scenes or kissing, intimate touching, or even, like, vulnerable scenes, that may not include anything sexual, but they may need support in terms of mental health, based on the topic of the content that's being recorded that day. The intimacy coordinator is there to keep the actor safe, to be the liaison between the production and the actors and to help with the choreography of the moment. And it's important to have an intimacy on set for these really vulnerable moments, because we're coming out of the MeToo movement with the use of an intimacy coordinator. We're there to make sure that your boundaries stay your boundaries, your boundaries are upheld. We're there to make sure that the directors or anyone who has power on that film set doesn't have that power over you. You maintain your bodily autonomy.