#YouToo, Gwyneth Paltrow? Intimacy coordinators make sex scenes safe for all, not just A-listers | Barbara Ellen

The film star is among those undermining a role that was created out of the #MeToo movement to protect the powerless

How instructive to hear Gwyneth Paltrow's views on intimacy coordinators, the people hired to supervise intimate scenes infilm and television. Talking to Vanity Fair magazine about her big screen comeback, in Josh Safdie's ping pong film, Marty Supreme, the actor, 52, joked of her sex scenes with 29-year-old Timothee Chalamet: I was like, I'm 109 years old. You're 14'."

Paltrow also said: There's now something called an intimacy coordinator (IC), which I did not know existed." When the IC spoke to her: I'm like, Girl, I'm from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera's on'... We said, I think we're good. You can step a little bit back'." She added: I don't know how it is for the kids who are starting out, but... if someone is like OK, then he puts his hand here'... I would feel as an artist very stifled by that."