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Russell T Davies Slams Gwyneth Paltrow For Intimacy Coordinator Comment
Tip Toe creator Russell T Davies singled out Gwyneth Paltrow while lambasting Hollywood A-listers who have spoken unfavourably about working with intimacy coordinators on the sets of their films and TV shows.
During a recent interview with The Mirror, the creator of hit shows like Queer As Folk and It’s A Sin sang the praises of intimacy coordinators, but lamented that there’s been a “rash recently of very famous actors saying” that their work isn’t “needed”.
“They have so much power and so much privilege and they have no idea what it is like to be a jobbing actor with no power on a set. Shame on them.”
Recalling one incident, when the film’s intimacy coordinator asked if she was happy with a particular move, she told Vanity Fair that she’d responded: “Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.”
“We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back’, ” she later admitted. “I don’t know how it is for kids who are starting out, but… if someone is like, ’OK, and then he’s going to put his hand here’… I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that.”
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