Mikey Madison Declined an Intimacy Coordinator on ‘Anora,’ but Professionals Say There Should Always Be One: Actors and Directors ‘Can’t Speak for How Every Extra Felt’

variety.com:

Selome Hailu Mikey Madison begins Sean Baker‘s Palme d’Or-winning drama “Anora” as a stripper who accepts thousands of dollars to be exclusive with her rich Russian client, Vanya (Mark Eidelstein) for a too-perfect week that ends with a diamond ring on her finger.

But as quickly as the marriage came together, Vanya runs away while his family’s goons chase, gag and tie Ani up before forcing her to help them arrange an annulment.

Needless to say, the film earns its R-rating with violence, drugs and of course, plenty of sex. But there was no intimacy coordinator on set. “It was a choice that I made,” Madison said in a conversation with Pamela Anderson for Variety‘s Actors on Actors.

She went on to explain that Baker and his wife, producer Samantha Quan, offered her the chance to work with an intimacy coordinator, but she and Eidelstein “decided that it would be best just to keep it small.