This week, Ita joined Em Clarkson and Alex Light, on the Should I Delete That? podcast, discussing her experience across the TV & Film industry.
Em Clarkson shared her experience of the interview here:
“SEX ON SCREEN! Oh what a guest and oh what we learned!!! Please welcome intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien to the podcast! You’ve never seen a CV like this before, Ita has worked on EVERY thing you can think of (SERIOUSLY!! Sex Education, I May Destroy You, Normal People…), bringing some of the most powerful and memorable on screen sex scenes to life and this conversation was fascinating. From a practical standpoint of course, to the pleasantries and prompts required to actually make the magic happen (can’t just be us who would crumble into a heap at the awkwardness) to the politics of it all. This is a huge and perhaps underestimated part of her work.
The last decade has thrown into sharp focus the somewhat insidious nature of this industry, one teeming with power imbalance and misogyny, and that has made Ita’s work both more important than ever, and in many ways, more controversial. She has been an advocate and a voice for not just the actors she works with, although her presence sounds very welcome to so many of them, but those consuming the content too, ensuring that what we watch is honest, sensitive, safe and true and her influence has been colossal.
Ita has written a book, about her career, her understanding of intimacy and the ways in which we can bring it into our lives and we loved talking to her about it. She has been such a huge part in creating some of the most memorable intimate scenes of the last decade and it was so incredible to talk to her about them.” Please listen to Should I Delete That? wherever you get your podcasts. less”
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