30 Jul 2025

Staging sex on screen

From Nights, 9:15 pm on 30 July 2025
Ita O'Brien, Intimacy Co-ordinator

Ita O'Brien, Intimacy Co-ordinator Photo: Nicholas Dawkes

Ita O'Brien is one of the world's foremost intimacy co-ordinators and author of Intimacy.

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandals and subsequent #MeToo and Time's Up movements, she introduced and developed the "Intimacy On Set Guidelines". Her aim was to help protect actors and actresses and to help producers and directors turn the sex scene into something more professional.

Ita joins Emile to explain how sex can be staged safely for the screen. 

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Photo: PIXABAY