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Kate Winslet defended intimacy coordinators in a recent interview with The New York Times. The Oscar winner said that having an intimacy coordinator on set would have benefited her every time she had to perform a sexual situation on camera, whether it was more graphic scenes with full frontal nudity or much calmer scenes with just kissing.
“I would have benefited from having an intimacy coordinator every time I had to do a love scene or be partially naked or even a kissing scene,” Winslet said. “It would have been nice to have someone on my side, because I always had to defend myself.”
Winslet was far from the empowered actress she is now when she was just starting out in Hollywood, and I wish she had had the courage to speak up like a young performer during intimate scenes to say, “I don’t like that camera angle. I don’t want to stay here naked from the front. I don’t want that many people in the room. “I want my robe to be closer.”
“Just little things like that,” Winslet explained. “When you’re young, you’re really afraid of pissing people off or looking rude or pathetic because you might need those things. So learning to have your own voice in those environments was very, very difficult.”
Intimacy coordinators work closely with the director and actors to plan the choreography of sex scenes or other intimate moments to ensure safety on set and maintain personal boundaries between actors. While many artists have defended the role, others have mocked it in recent years. Sean Bean generated controversy in 2022 after saying that intimacy coordinators “spoil the spontaneity” of filming a sex scene.
“It would inhibit me more because it draws attention to things,” Bean said of having an intimacy coordinator in the room. “If someone said, ‘Do this, put your hands there while you touch his thing…’ I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined if someone reduced it to a technical exercise.”
Winslet has been appearing in the press in support of her new HBO series, “The Regime.” The pilot is now available to stream on Max. New episodes air Sunday nights at 9 pm ET on HBO.
