Backstage: Why Those Intimate Scenes on ‘Conversations With Friends’ Feel So Real
BY JESSICA DERSCHOWITZ
A pioneer in the field of intimacy coordinating, Ita O’Brien has brought her expertise and perspective to projects including I May Destroy You and Sex Education. Here, she guides us through working with the directors and stars of Hulu’s Conversations With Friends. Like Normal People, which she also worked on, the series is an adaptation of a Sally Rooney novel that examines a nexus of complicated (and extremely sexy) relationships.