Emma Corrin has opened up on #MeToo and the importance of intimacy coordinators, explaining that they have previously removed clothes at a director’s request despite feeling uncomfortable.
The actor, best known for their role as Princess Diana in The Crown, said that before the #MeToo movement, they sometimes felt like they had to go along with things for the sake of their career. ‘I’ve done it myself.
I’ve been on sets where I’ve been asked to do something and in the moment I’ve done it and then people have come up to me and been like, “Emma, why were you comfortable with that?”‘ they recalled. ‘And I was like, “I just felt I should because we were in the middle of a take and they asked me to take this piece of clothing off and I did it. ” But when you’re at the start of your career you feel you have to go along with things. ’Emma, 26, added to The Times that intimacy coordinators are as crucial as stunt coordinators, ‘because of safety, because of those two people’s feelings of being comfortable … even just technically for the crew, working out what shape the scene’s going to take.
Once those boundaries are established, then there can be spontaneity in that moment. ’The actor has various new projects coming up, including a new adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and romantic drama My Policeman, which they star in alongside Harry Styles.
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