Overview
- Pugh said she has had “good ones and bad ones,” calling intimacy coordination a job that is still figuring itself out.
- She described a “s---” experience where a coordinator made a scene “so weird and so awkward” and was not helpful.
- She recalled being asked to do things in sex scenes that she now views as “completely inappropriate,” often when no coordinator was present.
- Pugh praised skilled coordinators for shaping the story behind intimate scenes and for measures like advance discussions, safe words, defined coverage and closed sets.
- Her comments arrive as Jennifer Lawrence, Gwyneth Paltrow and others question when coordinators are necessary, while SAG‑AFTRA promotes their use for nudity and simulated sex.