Gwyneth Paltrow’s Remarks About Intimacy Coordinators Slammed as ‘Irresponsible’

variety.com:

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Caroline Hollick, a former drama boss at Channel 4, has described Gwyneth Paltrow’s remarks about intimacy coordinators as “irresponsible.” The actor spoke recently about her sex scenes with Timothée Chalamet in Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” and said she felt “very stifled” by the presence of an intimacy coordinator. “We said, ‘I think we’re good.

You can step a little bit back,’ ” she told Vanity Fair. Hollick, who now works for Peter Chernin’s North Road, said at drama festival Series Mania Tuesday that Paltrow’s comments were “quite an irresponsible thing to say.” Speaking on a panel titled “Let’s Talk About Sex! (And Consent),” Hollick said: “Every now and then an actor makes a comment over whether they like intimacy coordinators or not.

Gwyneth Paltrow said she grew up in a time when [actors] ‘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 added: “Bringing an intimacy coordinator on set empowers an actor because there is someone on side who is there to fight for them.