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‘I’d feel stifled by that’: Gwyneth Paltrow told intimacy coordinator to ‘step back’ on new film with Timothée Chalamet

The actor, who shares a number of sex scenes with co-star Chalamet in new film Marty Supreme, said ‘I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on’

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Paltrow, 52, said that working on Marty Supreme, which is her first leading role in a film since 2010, was her first experience of the relatively new profession, introduced after the #MeToo movement to try to help protect actors on set after multiple instances of abuse were exposed. “There’s now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed,” Paltrow said, adding that when asked if she would be comfortable with a particular move during the filming of a sex scene, “I was like: ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.’” Anora star Mikey Madison, whose best actress win was among one of the five Oscars the film earned earlier this month said she declined director Sean Baker’s offer of an intimacy coordinator for her sex scenes.

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