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Here's a little 'perter' to show how far we've come in the movie business. If those in Hollywood deem their
art of entertainment must be based in a reality close to the one their audience exists in, is a 'love-making'
scene really integral to a fictional plot?

I mean, I know sex sells and is now part of the traditional make-up of news-delivery and the movie-making
industry for its titillating value, but how did script-writers, Producers, Directors and actors get around it in earlier
years?

Dame Emma Thompson defends intimacy co-coordinators after Sean Bean remarks

'Dame Emma Thompson has defended the use of intimacy co-ordinators on film and TV sets after Sean Bean
said they "spoil the spontaneity" of sex scenes. A string of actresses, also including West Side Story's Rachel
Zegler, have criticised Bean's comments.



The use of intimacy co-ordinators, who choreograph intimate scenes, has become widespread in recent years.
Speaking to Fitzy & Wippa on Australian radio station Nova, Dame Emma said they were "fantastically important".

She said many performers would agree. "You might find that people go, 'It made me feel comfortable, it made me
feel safe, it made me feel as though I was able to do this work.'" Specialist intimacy co-ordinators were "the most
fantastic" additions to sets, according to the English actress, who recently played a widow in search of sexual
fulfilment in the movie Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.

"And no, you can't just let it flow," she said. "There's a camera there and a crew. You're not on your own in a hotel
room, you're surrounded by a bunch of blokes, mostly. So it's not a comfortable situation full stop." Speaking to The
Times last week, Bean said he had reservations about the new way of working. "It would inhibit me more because
it's drawing attention to things. Somebody saying: 'Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his thing.'

"I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise,"
added the 63-year-old Game of Thrones actor. He compared the modern methods with shooting the 1993 TV
adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover opposite Joely Richardson.

"Lady Chatterley was spontaneous," Bean said. "It was a joy. We had a good chemistry between us, and we knew
what we were doing was unusual. Because she was married, I was married.
"But we were following the story. We were trying to portray the truth of what DH Lawrence wrote."Responding to his
comments, Zegler said on Twitter that intimacy co-ordinators "establish an environment of safety for actors" and that
"spontaneity in intimate scenes can be unsafe".

She said the one who worked with her on Steven Spielberg's recent remake of West Side Story "showed grace to a
newcomer like myself [plus] educated those around me who've had years of experience". Jameela Jamil, star of The
Good Place, offered: "It should only be technical. It's like a stunt. Our job as actors is to make it not look technical.
Nobody wants an impromptu grope."

In the same interview, Bean said he had been sad to see a scene with Snowpiercer co-star Lena Hall, which he said
was "trying to push the boundaries", be "censored" after it was cut from the final edit, and that she "had a musical
cabaret background, so she was up for anything".

In response, Hall, who made it clear she had felt entirely at ease acting alongside Bean, said: "Just because I am in
theatre (not cabaret, but I do perform them every once in a while) does not mean that I am up for anything. "If I feel
comfortable with my scene partner and with others in the room then I won't need an intimacy co-ordinator.
But if there is any part of me that is feeling weird, gross, over exposed etc… I will either challenge the necessity of
the scene or I'll want an IC."

'Sometimes you need them, sometimes you don't'
She went on to say intimacy co-ordinators were "a welcome addition to the set and [I] think they could also help with
the trauma experienced in other scenes". "Sometimes you need [them], sometimes you don't, but every single person
and scene and experience is different."

The Bectu entertainment union also issued a statement saying it found Bean's comments about intimacy co-ordinators
"disappointing" from "such a screen favourite and established actor".

Bectu head Philippa Childs said: "Intimacy co-ordination provides vital support for artists during the preparation, rehearsal
and shooting of intimate action and its increasing use is a welcome move to further establish an environment of safety
for actors on set.

"These comments display a disservice to intimacy co-ordinators and to the knowledge and contributions of the trained,
skilled professionals our members who carry out this work are."...'

BBC:

Emma Thompson, the bikini-clad girl who once stood inside a dustbin and advertised Rupert Murdoch's 'The Sun' newspaper.