They’re the new and very fashionable requirement on every film and television production set and are known for helping young actors in particular navigate sex scenes without fear, but intimacy coordinators aren’t for everyone, it seems.
Toni Collette has shown that she feels happier working without an intimate scene and has occasionally asked her to leave the set.
Collette, who plays the lead role The powercoming to Prime Video on March 31, London said Just Newspaper:
“I think they’ve only been called in a few times and I’ve come to trust and feel very comfortable with the people I’ve worked with. It just felt like these people who were made to make me feel more comfortable were actually making me more anxious. They didn’t help, so I asked them to leave.”
Collette has had a solid career spanning three decades spanning more than 70 films and more than a dozen TV shows since her breakthrough role in the 1994s Muriel’s weddingand she was asked if intimacy coaches made her life easier when she was younger.
She replied:
“I’ve been very fortunate that I’ve only worked with a few assholes in the several decades that I’ve managed to keep this boat afloat.”
Collette appears The power – adapted by Amazon from the 2016 bestseller by Naomi Alderman – as Margot Cleary-Lopez, the mayor of Seattle, in a futuristic society where women have evolved the ability to conduct electric shocks through their hands.
Leslie Mann was originally slated for the role, but schedules changed and Collette was late for the production. she said The Just:
“I kind of jumped in at the last minute and shot the entire season in five weeks, which was a total fuck.”