Florence Pugh says she has had “good and bad” experiences with intimacy coordinators while making films.

Ensuring that sex scenes are safe and consensual has become a topic of debate as they become more common during film productions.

The Academy Award nominee told documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux that working with intimacy coordinators has been a mixed bag, but she understands their importance.

On Tuesday’s episode of Theroux’s podcast, Pugh said, “It’s not to get in the way. It’s not to confuse, it’s not to make things more complicated or more awkward. It’s just to make sure that everyone is happy with what they’re creating.”

“I’ve had good ones and bad ones,” he continued, noting that the position was not common when he started in the industry.

Florence Pugh, here in an episode from April
Florence Pugh, here on an April episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” told Louis Theroux that she worked with intimacy coordinators who enriched the stories and some who made things downright “weird.”

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The “Dune” star added that while she is “pretty confident” and “pretty happy in my skin,” she remembers situations where filmmakers’ requests felt “completely inappropriate” and it would have been nice to have had an intimacy coordinator on set to support her.

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While Pugh told Theroux that she had mostly had “fantastic experiences” with intimacy experts, she said she had dealt with coordinators who just made things “weird.”

“I also had a shitty example where someone made it so weird and awkward and it wasn’t really helpful and it was like wanting to be part of the set in a way that wasn’t helpful, and I think that’s a work that’s still figuring itself out,” he explained.

Discussing how intimacy coordinators can have the most positive impact on a film, she said the good ones focus on “finding the story of what it is, what kind of sex it is, how they touch each other, how long they’ve been having sex.”