Veteran actor Michael Douglas suggested that the filming of sex scenes has become stifled by the presence of intimacy coordinators in post-MeToo Hollywood.
Douglas, who himself is no stranger to sex scenes after having filmed erotic thrillers Fatal Attraction (1987) and Basic Instinct (1992), lamented to the Radio Times that the presence of intimacy coordinators on set has taken artistic license away from filmmakers. He did, however, acknowledge that actors and directors took things too far in the past and that some women were indeed subject to harassment.
“I’m past the age where I’ve got to worry about that. But it’s interesting with all the intimacy coordinators,” he said. “It feels like executives taking control away from filmmakers — but there have been some terrible faux pas and harassment.”
“Sex scenes are like fight scenes, it’s all choreographed. In…
