Jennifer Lawrence's admission about her sex scenes for her latest project has sparked some debates surrounding intimacy coordinators.
When Lawrence was on the Las Culturistas podcast to promote her new flick, Die My Love, she claimed she didn’t need an intimacy coordinator as co-star Robert Pattinson wasn’t ‘pervy’.
Lynne Ramsay’s psychodrama sees Lawrence play a woman who develops postpartum psychosis after the birth of her child, with Pattinson being a very useless husband.
The film involved the natural evolution of any relationship, so sex and nudity weren’t shied away from.
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Typically, an intimacy coordinator would work with the stars to ensure everyone feels safe and that the scenes are comfortable.
A Redditor who works with actors for this reason, shared they ‘serve the actor’ to ‘help make sure they understand the direction, that safe and trauma informed practices are in place and that there is a professional approach’.
But for Lawrence, she didn’t feel the need to use such a service.
“We did not have [an intimacy coordinator], or maybe we did but we didn’t really… I felt really safe with Rob,” Lawrence said on the podcast. “He is not pervy and very in love with [partner] Suki Waterhouse. We mostly were just talking about our kids and relationships.”
She explained that there 'was never any weird like, “Does he think I like him?”.’
To her, ‘if there was a little bit of that I would probably have an intimacy coordinator’ as she claimed there are ‘a lot of male actors’ who ‘get offended if you don’t want to f*** them’.
This then leads to ‘punishments’.
After expressing her thoughts on this, it seems that people on social media were a little heated about her reasons for not using the coordinator. Many felt that by saying a coordinator wasn't needed due to Pattinson not being 'pervy', she misrepresented why intimacy coordinators are needed on set.
On X, someone wrote: “actors stop completely misrepresenting the point of intimacy coordinators challenge failed yet again.”
Another said: “again… that is not the point of intimacy coordinators. it’s so that every person on set (including behind the camera) feels safe and protected. seasoned (and new) actors need to stop acting like it’s a badge of honor to not have an intimacy coordinator.”
Someone else wrote: “girl who thinks intimacy coordinators exist just in case your costar is in love with you.”
Similarly, Julia Roberts started an online debate when she too revealed she opted out of using an intimacy coordinator for a kiss scene with Andrew Garfield in their flick, After The Hunt.
Since her interview, TikTok users felt that Roberts’ choice was opting ‘out of safety’ because she ‘felt like it’.
Topics: Film and TV, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Social Media
Britt Jones