I didn't expect Paltrow to be the one who'd betray women

"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women," said Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as US secretary of state. It's a quote I think about far too often, simply because of how many people it applies to. I didn't expect Gwyneth Paltrow to be one of them.

- OLIVIA PETTER

In a new interview, the 52-year-old actor explained that she refused to work with an intimacy coordinator for her latest film, Marty Supreme, despite her filming many sex scenes for it with her co-star, Timothée Chalamet, 29. Speaking to Vanity Fair in a piece published on Tuesday, Paltrow said: "I mean, we have a lot of sex in this movie. There's a lot - a lot." When asked if she was put in "a lot of vulnerable positions with" Chalamet for the film, Paltrow replied: "Beyond."

And yet Paltrow was completely dismissive of intimacy coordinators, whose job it is to ensure that actors feel safe and protected during sex scenes. "There's now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed," she told the magazine. "I was like: 'Girl, I'm from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera's on." Paltrow went on, explaining that she and Chalamet didn't feel they needed to rely on the coordinator: "We said, 'I think we're good. You can step a little bit back.""