Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Irresponsible” Intimacy Coordinator Remarks Criticized By North Road’s Caroline Hollick — Series Mania

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Ex-Channel 4 drama chief Caroline Hollick has called Gwyneth Paltrow “irresponsible” for her headline-grabbing remarks about intimacy coordinators.

Last week, the Hollywood star kickstarted a debate when she said she would “feel very stifled” by the actions of intimacy coordinators, adding that she had to tell the coordinator on her upcoming Marty Supreme movie to “step a little bit back” in sex scenes with Paltrow and co-star Timothée Chalamet.

Speaking at Series Mania today, Hollick, who now works for Peter Chernin’s North Road, branded Paltrow’s comments “quite an irresponsible thing to say,” which she said prove that intimacy coordinators have “got caught up in the fringes of the culture wars.” “Every now and then an actor makes a comment over whether they like intimacy coordinators or not,” said Hollick, who was speaking on a panel titled ‘Let’s Talk About Sex! (And Consent)’. “Gwyneth Paltrow said she grew up in a time when [people in Hollywood] ‘took our kit off and got on with it.’ As a powerful woman in Hollywood acting with a man much younger than her, well I’m sure [Chalamet] is chill but I thought it was quite an irresponsible thing to say.” Hollick, who commissioned the likes of BAFTA-nominated porn industry drama Adult Material during her Channel 4 tenure, said “you have to think really carefully abut power and power structures” when considering the role of intimacy coordinators, whose use has risen since the #MeToo era began. “Bringing an intimacy coordinator on set empowers an actor because there is someone on side who is there to fight for them,” said Hollick. “Producers have an agenda, writers have an agenda and directors have an agenda.