Florence Pugh is wading into the ongoing discourse surrounding the usage of intimacy coordinators on set.
According to the actress, it is a job “that’s still figuring itself out” and she’s had experience with both “good ones and bad ones.”
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“I’m having fantastic experiences with intimacy coordinators. However, I’ve also had a s–t example where someone just made it so weird and so awkward and really wasn’t helpful and kind of was just like wanting to be a part of the set in a way that wasn’t helpful, and I think it’s a job that’s still figuring itself out,” she shared on The Louis Theroux Podcast.
“I will say that I’ve been able to understand better meaning now through working with great ones in sex scenes [about] finding the story of what it is, what kind of sex is it, how do you touch each other, how long have you been having sex for,” Florence continued.
“Everybody’s just kind of working away to chip away at the scene. And I think when I worked with a fantastic coordinator, I was like, ‘Oh, this is what I’ve been missing, understanding the dance of intimacy as opposed to just shooting a sex scene.’ There are good ones and bad ones, and it’s through the good ones that I have learned how effective it can really be.”
The Little Woman star is currently busy with several upcoming projects, such as Avengers: Doomsday, an East of Eden miniseries for Netflix, and Dune: Part Three. Before that, her most recently released projects include Marvel Zombies, Thunderbolts*, and We Live in a Time.
Florence is not the first to discuss the divisive job. Earlier this year, married couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie talked about choosing to forego an intimacy coordinator for their movie Together.