Emma Thompson calls intimacy coordinators 'fantastically important', perhaps joking that Sean Bean 'accidentally had one at home'

Emma Thompson has defended the role of on-set intimacy coordinators in a new interview.

During an appearance on Australian radio show 'Fitzy & Wippa' to promote his new film, 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande', one of the presenters asked the Oscar-winning actor what she thought of Sean Bean's recent comments in which he denounced the use of intimacy coordinators in productions.

"Emma, ​​I wanted to talk about it because I read it during the week, quite timely, but for the more intimate scenes you had to do in the movie, it was Sean Bean, who was Ned Stark in 'Game of Thrones' and he said he didn't really appreciate the work of the intimacy coordinator because he said it ruined the spontaneity,'" the radio host said. "So that's how you found it? Did you have an on-set intimacy coordinator advising you what to do in those scenes?"

Responding, Thompson defended the profession and appeared to have misheard the host or not know who Sean Bean was.

"Intimacy coordinators are incredibly important and I don't know [if] you were talking to anyone who found it distracting, but another conversation might lead people to say, 'It exposed me. ease, it made me feel safe, it made me feel like I could do this job,” Thompson replied. "So the intimacy coordinators are the most fantastic introduction to our work. And no, you can't just 'let it go'. There's a camera and a crew. You're not alone in a bedroom. "Hotel, you're surrounded by a bunch of guys most of the time. So it's not a comfortable situation, period."

"So I don't know who the actor was, but maybe he accidentally had an intimacy coordinator at home," she added.

Daryl McCormack, co-star of Thompson's "Leo Grande," previously told Variety that while "intimacy coordinators are really important, and their work is so valuable, so helpful, and necessary," they had chosen not to use one during filming. from "Good luck to you, Leo Grande."

"We were able to come to each other and say, 'What's going to best serve our relationship with this?'" he explained. that outside of the safety and connection that we had already found. It was really exciting for us to build that ourselves with the director."

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