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Toni Collette has revealed she has previously asked for intimacy coordinators to not be present while filming. The Australian actress, 50, has enjoyed a three-decade Hollywood career, first shooting to fame in comedy-drama Muriel’s Wedding in 1994. Since then, she’s starred in films including The Sixth Sense, which scored her an Oscars nomination, Little Miss Sunshine, About A Boy and Netflix’s mega-hit, Knives Out.
But while acting icons including Emma Thompson have branded intimacy coordinators ‘essential’, Toni, who recently divorced her husband of nearly 20 years, has said they make her ‘anxious. ’She explained: ‘I think it’s only been a couple of times where [intimacy coordinators] been brought in, and I have very much trusted and felt at ease with the people I was working with. ‘It just felt like those people who were brought in to make me feel more at ease were actually making me feel more anxious.
They weren’t helping, so I asked them to leave,’ she continued to The Times. Sean Bean recently came under fire questioning the need for intimacy coordinators on film and TV sets, saying they can ‘spoil the spontaneity’ of sex scenes and restrict actors. ‘Somebody saying, “Do this, put your hand there, while you touch his thing”…I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise,’ he told The Times.
Similarly, Ian McKellen was criticised by Love Actually actress Emma for saying intimacy coordinators spoil the ‘purity’ of theatre. ‘Why can’t it be the director who does that? Why has it got to be somebody who’s been trained in how to do it?’ he said on BBC Radio 4’s The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed programme and podcast. The role of intimacy coordinators
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Hereditary and Little Miss Sunshine, explained during an interview with The Times how she felt the presence of intimacy coordinators during sex scenes on past projects didn’t help her feel more at ease.“I think it’s only been a couple of times where they’ve been brought in, and I have very much trusted and felt at ease with the people I was working with,” Collette said.“It just felt like those people who were brought in to make me feel more at ease were actually making me feel more anxious. They weren’t helping, so I asked them to leave.”Asked if she would have appreciated their presence on set earlier in her career, Collette replied: “It depends.
Australian actress Toni Collette is detailing the discomfort she has felt on-set filming sex scenes — but not in the way you may think. The "Knives Out" actress expressed her views on intimacy coordinators infiltrating studios to help actors safely film sex scenes, during an interview with The Sunday Times. "I think it’s only been a couple of times where they’ve been brought in, and I have very much trusted and felt at ease with the people I was working with.
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Toni Collette has admitted that she asked intimacy coordinators to leave set because they made her "more anxious". While speaking to The Times for a new interview, the Australian star discussed how commonplace intimacy coordinators have become in the film and TV industry. Their purpose is to make actors feel at ease and in control of sex scenes or moments of nudity, however, the About a Boy star admitted the coordinators had the opposite effect on her and made her feel more uncomfortable.
Toni Collette is opening up about her opinion on intimacy coordinators on film sets.
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They’re the new, and very fashionable, requirement on every film and TV production set, and recognised for helping particularly young actors navigate sex scenes without fear, but intimacy coordinators aren’t for everyone, it appears.
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Jordan Moreau Lana Condor, Toni Collette and Jane Fonda are playing a family of sea monster queens in DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming film “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.” Condor voices Ruby, “a shy teenager who discovers that she’s part of a legendary royal lineage of mythical sea krakens and that her destiny, in the depths of the oceans, is bigger than she ever dreamed.” Collette plays her mother, who forbade Ruby from ever stepping foot in the water, and Fonda is her grandmother, from whom Ruby is destined to inherit the throne of the kraken queens. Here’s the logline: “Sweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because her over-protective supermom has forbade Ruby from ever getting in the water. But when she breaks her mom’s #1 rule, Ruby will discover that she is a direct descendant of the warrior Kraken queens and is destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother, the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas. The Kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids who have been battling with the Kraken for eons. There’s one major, and immediate, problem with that: The school’s beautiful, popular new girl, Chelsea (Annie Murphy) just happens to be a mermaid. Ruby will ultimately need to embrace who she is and go big to protect those she loves most.”