Co-ordinating intimacy
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
There is a new job on film sets, a job that has grown out of the #MeToo movement. Manuela Saragosa speaks to Ita O’Brien, the woman who created the guidelines for the role, about why every film set needs an intimacy co-ordinator.
Could their inclusion as members of the production team become a legal requirement? We hear from Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety magazine's senior correspondent in Los Angeles.
Producer: Sarah Treanor and Benjie Guy
(Photo: Actors Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in the film Fifty Shades of Grey. Credit: Alamy)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Manuel Saragossa. |
| 0:06.5 | Coming up, there's a new job on film sets, a job that's grown out of the Me Too movement. |
| 0:12.3 | We're doing a risk assessment and then we're putting in place, you know, genitalia cushions |
| 0:16.6 | so that we have an extra barrier between actors. Then we're looking at, you know, body part techniques. |
| 0:22.0 | We're talking about the rise of intimacy coordinators, people who ensure no actor leaves a film set feeling violated. |
| 0:29.2 | Could employing an intimacy coordinator eventually become a legal requirement everywhere? |
| 0:34.8 | You can now call your union rep and say there's no intimacy coordinator here |
| 0:39.2 | and they could shut down production. That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:50.2 | We're in parking lot. |
| 0:55.8 | When you're watching a steamy scene like that one from the film Fifty Shades of Grey, |
| 1:00.8 | you're probably not thinking about the crew of sound technicians, |
| 1:04.1 | gaffers and cinematographers who populated the set while the scene was shot. |
| 1:12.9 | They're actors, you might think. |
| 1:14.7 | They know what they're doing. |
| 1:15.9 | They're paid to fake it, to pretend. |
| 1:18.2 | No one said it would be a breeze. |
| 1:20.2 | Well, turns out it really isn't. |
| 1:22.6 | It's not something that's easy to do. |
| 1:24.7 | I really had to get ready for it each time |
| 1:27.3 | and know exactly what we |
| 1:29.8 | were going to do, how we were going to accomplish shooting the scenes, the more intimate ones. |
| 1:33.6 | Dakota Johnson's star of the 50 Shades of Grey series speaking there to the US celebrity chat show |
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