Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SAG-AFTRA has filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to represent intimacy coordinators in bargaining with the major studios.
The move is the latest step in a five-year effort by the union to professionalize the role of intimacy coordinators, who act as liaisons between performers and the production during the filming of sex scenes.
Getting NLRB recognition would allow SAG-AFTRA to bargain for minimum pay and working conditions. “We have no protections,” said Marci Liroff, who has worked as an intimacy coordinator in film and TV. “And we have no heath insurance.
We have no pension.” HBO requires intimacy coordinators for filming sex scenes, but there is no such requirement industrywide.
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