Meet HBO's sex scene coach

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What about a fake fake penis? Is that an actual penis, or just something that is not an actual fake penis but is being passed off as an actual fake penis???

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That’s not one of their duties. An intimacy coordinator is supposed to ensure the well-being of actors in sex scenes. It’s not coaching and it’s not choreography. Rodis’ own foundation states that an intimacy coordinator is expected to ensure that:

  • all staff and actors are aware of the context of the intimacy as part of the story,

  • communication about the intimacy takes place among participants and avenues for reporting harassment are available,

  • actors continually consent to all scenes of intimacy,

  • all scenes of intimacy are performed according to a previously agreed-to choreography, and

  • actors are encouraged to mark the end of each intimate scene with a moment to signal the return to real-life interaction.

The role of intimacy coordinator is not to be confused with that of an “intimacy choreographer”, who specializes in the techniques of staging intimate scenes.

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That doesn’t seem much better. It must have been terrible for the ladies to have to wear thick padded bras under those hot lamps so nobody had to suffer the knowledge that they might have found a sex scene to be arousing.

I’d wager there are scores of actors who wish they could have had that level of coverage.

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The real boner killer here is that the scenes you see on screen needed to be shot 7-8 times from different angles and match up nearly exactly.

So, he got to squeeze her boobie, and she got to squeeze a plastic weenie. Seems fair.

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