Back in the day when I had cable television and not a care in the world, HBO was my jam. I used to have house parties that centered around me cooking enough food for a football team while my friends and I watched whatever was the hot Sunday night HBO show. We flew through classics like Oz, The Sopranos, The Wire…all the good shit.
I think I liked the fact that I could hang out with my vanilla friends and watch pseudo sex scenes with a bunch of action and then discuss the shows afterwords (and during, if I’m being honest…I’m a TV Time Talker, my wife says). What was believable, what was unbelievable…who we wanted to hook up with who…who needed to be written off the show in a bloody train accident.
Because everyone equates HBO shows with sexiness and edge, they’ve decided to get ahead of the competition and hire someone specifically to monitor the sex scenes to make sure that the people involved are always comfortable and that the content is as real as possible.
Talk about Dream Jobs I Wish I Had.
The position was created because Emily Meade, who is an actor on The Deuce, realized that she wanted someone on set to advocate for her while she was performing simulated sexual acts in front of the cast and crew. In the show, she plays a prostitute in New York during the 1970s. On her average day, she’ll have to give a blow job to a dildo without batting an eye. She was uncomfortable bringing up any of her discomfort, whether it be with the room temperature or her nakedness, so HBO took care of the problem by hiring a woman named Alicia Rodis as their very first “Intimacy Coordinator.”
How awesome would it be to have that on your business card?
When a sex scene is going on, Alicia is close by making sure that the talent is comfortable at every moment. Before the scenes are shot, she reviews the scripts and makes sure that everyone is comfortable with both physical actions and dialogue. She is an advocate for the talent who has no qualms about stopping the take so that the performers under her watch are 100% comfortable at all times. The fact that this was basically unheard of before this point in time is a little bit unnerving. I was kind of shocked that there wasn’t someone looking out for the talent. You’d think that on set someone would be there to oversee every intimate scene and make sure that everything was above board.
HBO is so happy with the success of their Intimacy Coordinator on the set of The Deuce that they have decided to make it a standing position on every one of their productions. I’m so here for this, Peepz. Keep the talent comfortable and they’ll keep making gold.
Source: Deadline
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