{"id":563440,"date":"2025-11-11T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563440\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:23:11","slug":"florence-pugh-talks-stance-on-intimacy-coordinators-her-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563440\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence Pugh Talks Stance On Intimacy Coordinators, Her Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIntimacy coordinators<\/a> have been in the spotlight ever since their creation largely in response to the #MeToo<\/a> movement in Hollywood circa 2017, and more recently, Academy Award-winning stars like Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> and Mikey Madison<\/a> have generated headlines for their stance on whether they wanted to work with one or not.<\/p>\n

\n\tFlorence Pugh<\/a> has added her nuanced take on the matter, appearing on a new episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast to discuss how she has had both positive and negative experiences collaborating with the below-the-line workers. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s not to get in the way, it\u2019s not to confuse, it\u2019s not to make things more complicated or make things more awkward,\u201d the Thunderbolts* star explained. \u201cIt\u2019s simply to make sure that everybody is happy with what they\u2019re creating and also that you\u2019re creating things that have meaning to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar-nominated Little Women star continued: \u201cI\u2019ve had good ones and bad ones. I did a lot of my sex scenes before that was even a job, and I think I\u2019m quite confident and quite happy in my skin, and I\u2019ve always been able to make sure that I\u2019m heard. That being said \u2026 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUltimately, the We Live in Time actress said the relatively new title is still working through its \u2014 for lack of a better word \u2014 kinks.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut my view is changing about it as well, because I\u2019m now having fantastic experiences with intimacy coordinators,\u201d she said. \u201cHowever, that being said, I\u2019ve also had a shit example where someone just made it so weird and so awkward and really wasn\u2019t helpful and kind of was just like wanting to be a part of the set in a way that wasn\u2019t helpful, and I think it\u2019s a job that\u2019s still figuring itself out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking about her more fruitful experiences, Pugh said great intimacy coordinators provide an added layer of depth for the project at hand, helping craft the story behind what kind of sex is being explored on screen, how the characters would realistically touch each other and what that would entail depending on the history of the given relationship. All of this, Pugh said, is aided by the usage of safe words, discussions of what\u2019s off limits and having a designated person outside of the costume department who is in charge of coverage.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I worked with a fantastic coordinator, I was like: Oh, this is what I\u2019ve been missing, understanding the dance of intimacy, as opposed to just shooting a sex scene,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n

\n\tNext up, Pugh will be seen in Dune: Part Three, reprising her role as Princess Irulan; Avengers: Doomsday, where she will once again portray mercenary\/ex-Black Widow assassin Yelena Belova and limited TV series East of Eden, Netflix\u2019s modern interpretation of the classic John Steinbeck novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intimacy coordinators have been in the spotlight ever since their creation largely in response to the #MeToo movement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16797,179437,48861,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-563440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-florence-pugh","11":"tag-intimacy-coordinators","12":"tag-metoo","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115530813275361852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}