LONDON: Britain’s Ita O’Brien is one of cinema’s unsung stars, ensuring actors are comfortable filming their most sensitive scenes in a job she has made her own.
The 56-year-old intimacy coordinator has been a key figure behind the sex scenes in acclaimed series such as “I May Destroy You”, “Sex Education” and “Normal People”.
Preserving the intimacy of an artist filming a rape depiction, setting up a sex scene with a virgin actor and identifying the limits each actor is comfortable with are all issues that O’Brien is regularly confronted with.
A typical conversation she regularly has with stars, she told AFP, goes along the lines: “He is going put his hand here, you put yours there and then you start the…
