“Game of Thrones” star Sean Bean claims intimacy coordinators on set “spoil the spontaneity” of a sex scene.
In an interview with UK’s the Times, Bean said an intimacy coordinator personally “inhibits [him] more.”
“I should imagine it slows down the thrust of it. Ha, not the thrust, that’s the wrong word,” Bean, 63, said.
“Somebody saying, ‘Do this, put your hand there, while you touch his thing …’ ” the actor added. “I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise.”
He compared his experiences with intimacy coordinators to his time filming the 1993 adaptation of “Lady Chatterly’s Lover.”
“ ‘Lady Chatterley’ was spontaneous. It was joy. We had a good chemistry between us, and we knew what we were doing was unusual. Because she was married, I was married. But we were following the story,” he shared.
After being reminded by the interviewer that intimacy coordinators are there to protect people from any sexual misconduct, Bean responded, “I suppose it depends on the actress.”
Sean Bean as Ned Stark in Season 1 of “Game of Thrones.”HBOBean also bashed the use of censorship for nudity and sex, giving a scene on the TV series “Snowpiercer” where he and an actress were naked with mangos as an example.
“I think they cut a bit out actually. Often the best work you do, where you’re trying to push the boundaries, and the very nature of it is experimental, gets censored when TV companies or the advertisers say it’s so much,” he said.
“It’s a nice scene, quite surreal, dream-like and abstract. And mango-esque.”
Intimacy coordinators are typically hired to make sure actors are safe and that the behavior is entirely consensual.
They use different tools to keep actors modest while filming sex scenes, such as nipple covers, rolls of tape, a strapless thong and a “modesty pouch.”
Earlier this year, an intimacy coordinator told Insider that actors sometimes take a “time-out” to calm down if things get too hot and heavy on set as part of protocols to keep everyone comfortable.
“Give them five minutes, then I come in and check in,” he said. “Then we come back into it when they’re ready. The worst thing we can do is gawk or make it a massive deal.”
