The Truth About SEX SCENES

LIGHTS, CAMERA, CONSENT! INTIMACY COORDINATORS HAVE BECOME FIXTURES ON SET. BUT NOT EVERYONE IN HOLLYWOOD IS THRILLED ABOUT THEIR GROWING INFLUENCE.

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LESSON LEARNED "There are good ones and bad ones," Florence said of working with intimacy coordinators, "and it's through the good ones that I have learned how effective it can really be."

SHOOTING a sex scene isn't always — well, sexy. Just ask Florence Pugh. During a recent appearance on The Louis Theroux Podcast, the 29-year-old opened up about an unfortunate experience she had while working with an unnamed director. “I’m quite confident, I’m quite happy in my skin, I’ve always been able to make sure that I’m heard,” she noted. “That being said, even though I know that I believe that, and even though I know that I felt that at the time, there are plenty of things that I remember where it was just completely inappropriate to have asked me to do that, to have directed me in that way.”

In recent years, Hollywood has taken steps to protect actors from just that by implementing intimacy coordinators — a relatively new practice that came out of the MeToo movement that saw women pushing back at exploitation. “I think it’s a job that’s still figuring itself out,” Florence admitted. However, the