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How Hollywood Intimacy Coordinator Choreographs TV's Steamy Sex Scenes


In an exclusive interview, intimacy coordinator Brooke M. Haney talked to Us about creating a safe space on set

In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Haney — who’s served as an intimacy coordinator for Mayor of Kingstown, Elsbeth, The Best Man: The Final Chapters, Harlem and East New York — dished on what goes into overseeing sensitive sequences that translate into moments of passion onscreen and, most importantly, creating a safe space for the cast and crew. “We joke that we’re the only person production hires and pays to tell them no,” Haney told Us while promoting their new book, The Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen. “There’s times when I work with an actor who [says], ‘I don’t need an intimacy coordinator, I feel totally fine articulating my boundaries,’ and I’m like, ‘Great, my job is not to be your voice,’” Haney continued.

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