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Mail Online: 'I'd never done anything like that': Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones details the filming of the shows intimate scenes

23/11/2021

The series hired intimacy coordinator, Ita O’Brien to carefully construct and choreograph the scenes with realistic portrayal.
On Ita's role, Daisy spoke about the vulnerability that actors face and the importance of having intimacy coordinator's on set.
She said: 'I find it very shocking that [intimacy coordinators are] new. You are simulating something, and you are very vulnerable in that moment.
'So, it was amazing working with Ita [O’Brien, Normal People’s intimacy coordinator], she’s really good at allowing you to have agency in those moments.'

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InsideHook: Obviously “Game of Thrones” Should Have Had an Intimacy Coordinator

3/11/2021

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In other words, Momoa never would have been pressured to remove his intimacy pouch had there been an intimacy coordinator on set to help guide the scene. But, sadly, the actors on Game of Thrones weren’t the only ones harmed by its problematic sex scenes. Fans who watched the fantasy series — particularly those who were young, sexually inexperienced and impressionable at the time — may have developed their own incorrect or outdated views on what’s considered normal or acceptable when it comes to sex and consent based on what they saw onscreen.

“Very often, how someone learns about intimacy is through what they see,” intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien told InsideHook. “That is the medium through which we’re entertaining ourselves, but also reflecting our humanity back to itself. That’s what people feel that they need to aspire to. When it’s so unrealistic, it forms a real schism in how people think they should be and what they think is normal.”

We obviously can’t go back in time and undo the damage wrought by Game of Thrones‘s lack of an intimacy coordinator, but moving forward, we can work towards making the role an industry standard to ensure that actors like Whelan are never made to feel as though their personal boundaries regarding sex and nudity have been violated at work.

Ten years after the premiere of Thrones, HBO is now using intimacy coordinators on all its productions that have intimate scenes (the move was announced in 2018 after Thrones had finished filming its final season); here’s hoping that in another decade, it’ll be an absolute requirement on all film sets.

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Mail Online: 'I'd never done anything like that': Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones details the filming of the shows intimate scenes

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