Hi everybody I'm I'm Audrey Moore with Audrey Helps Actors and this is episode

number 52 and it is marked explicit. This is an explicit episode.

I just want to be very clear that if you are listening to this episode

with your children, with people that you don't want hearing

about sex and sexy stuff, I need you to just know that that's all of what this episode is.

We are going to take a deep hard look today at intimacy and sex in rehearsals in class on set how to approach intimacy and we're going to

look at jealousy and we're just we're really getting into it today with our guest

Mia Jacques. Mia is an intimacy coordinator and I just want to give you a little bit of a

heads up. We are starting this episode out right away Mia and I are going to be engaging in a sort of

of practice version of how to address intimacy with your scene partner.

Jesse and I decided to put this up front though in intimacy with your scene partner.

Jesse and I decided to put this up front, though in the actual recording it was a little bit later,

but we wanted it to be up front because we wanted everyone to hear this is the most important thing I think about this entire episode is just

literally actor to actor how can you comfortably communicate with one another ultimately

so that you can do the best work possible for everybody while everyone feels comfortable and safe.

So even though this episode focuses a lot, we talk a lot about women, these sexual situations and being a woman. I'm a woman, Mia is a woman, so we talk a lot about

this affecting women. But I just also want to say very pointedly that this discussion is not solely two or four women.

This is really for all of us out there, male, female, gender neutral,

non-binary, all genders, all identifications. This is just being a person and having

your body touch other bodies. That's what this episode is about. You know, I became really interested in a post that happened the other day on

Reddit about how 78% of suicides are men and the entire thread it was so fascinating the entire thread

was actually about men talking about having been raped in their life so I

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