it actually makes me ecstatic when I think about how basically pre heated rivalry there were two ways of viewing intimacy coordinators,
1. as an impediment on actors doing their jobs—here an intimacy coordinator is an unnecessary contrivance of a modern age that can’t respect ACTORS enough to let them find the scene. The newfangled intimacy coordinator is taking away the spontaneous nature of sex scenes and destroying real chemistry by disallowing the actors from communicating directly with each other and insisting they interrupt their Craft with questions about safety and consent that go against the immersion necessary to Do The Work
2. as a check on the pervasive violence faced by performers doing intimate scenes—here an intimacy coordinator is something someone WISHED they had after experiencing a traumatic day of shooting. even invoked with the intent of uplifting the work of intimacy coordinators, their role is flattened to actor-attendants, almost always for women, so the performers have someone else to say no for them when (in this understanding of the work) they are inevitably asked to do something beyond their boundaries. an intimacy coordinator is a guard dog, resigned to the idea that violation is an expected part of the system
so to see that the response to EVERY question from EVERY publication about “what makes these sex scenes work SO well???” for connor/hudson/jacob is “we worked through them extensively with our intimacy coordinator to make sure we knew exactly what had to get done and where we had space to play” is like the most perfect and timely response to a discourse that was going in circles every other week. like of COURSE there’s a dimension here not being acknowledged where an intimacy coordinator is A COLLABORATOR, one who has relevant knowledge about what reads on screen and what elevates the scene beyond initial instinct! whose JOB it is to think specifically about Where The Camera Is and What It’s Seeing so everyone else doesn’t have to be choreographing their work around intimacy garments and unpracticed movements. the work proves the worth of it! you don’t have to manifest the Perfect Accident, you can just get an expert on the team and let them do their job!
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