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Conan. Okay, let's get started. Hey, Brooke. Welcome to Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Hey, how's it going?

Hey, Brooke. How are you? I'm great. How are you? I'm doing all right. Where? I don't see where you are in the world. Where are you? I'm in New York, currently in Queens. You're in Queens? Oh, terrific. And all I know about you, it says here, and this is fascinating to me, is that you are an intimacy coordinator. Is that correct? Yeah, that's correct. It's the best job in the world.

Yeah. Yeah, it is. Well, I'm okay, Sona. Sona, why don't you tell us?

So excited. Literally, Sona's the one that has thoughts about this. This is, I mean, this job is

endlessly fascinating to me. And I would think it's become more and more

necessary as sex scenes. If you think about, you know, back in the day, it was a, it was a kiss. And then

the camera would drift over to an open window and some billowing curtains and then pan back over and

people are smoking cigarettes and the covers are pulled up to their chins. So obviously, as sex scenes

become more graphic and realistic, you need people there to make sure that everything's copacetic.

Is that correct? Yeah. I think the position came out of the Me Too movement, where all of a sudden, the awareness of some of the abuses in Hollywood became very apparent.

And as a result, producers started being willing to pay for someone to be there, both for guaranteeing that actors can consent to what's being asked of them

in a private setting with someone who's not in charge of hiring or firing them.

Oh, right, right.

And then also exactly what you're saying, the artistic side of it, which is the fun part, is making the scenes more believable, authentic, compelling, absurd, whatever the need of that project is.

Okay. I mean, I'm curious, first of all, how did you become, how does one become an intimacy coordinator?

Yeah.

Well, nowadays, there's schools you can go to.

But I started back in 2016.

I was an actor for a bunch of years.

And I tended to get cast in roles that involved intimacy or trauma.

And I realized that I'd taken years and years of study. I have my MFA

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