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House of the Dragon: EVERYTHING You Need to Know!
Sean Bean's comments astir intimacy coordinators person been scorched by an adept successful the field.
In August, the Games of Thrones alum criticized the beingness of intimacy coordinators—who are liable for the information and well-being of actors during scenes of a intersexual quality connected set—in an interrogation with The Sunday Times.
"It would inhibit maine much due to the fact that it's drafting attraction to things," helium said. "Somebody saying, ‘Do this, enactment your hands there, portion you interaction his thing…'"
Bean adjacent pointed to a country helium filmed with Lena Hall on TNT's Snowpiercer wherever an intimacy coordinator wasn't present, calling it, "A nice scene, rather surreal, dream-like and abstract."
Now, Miriam Lucia, who works arsenic the intimacy coordinator connected the Game of Thrones prequel bid House of the Dragon, has fired back.
"I conscionable deliberation helium is simply a antheral of a definite age, who has been successful this manufacture for a precise agelong time, and helium doesn't person an acquisition of the different side," Lucia told Deadline Sept. 18. "Or possibly he's had a atrocious acquisition of moving with an intimacy coordinator. All I would accidental is that successful my acquisition truthful far, I don't deliberation it gets successful the mode of the originative process."
Lucia, who besides precocious worked arsenic an intimacy coordinator connected season 2 of The White Lotus, argued that her occupation really makes actors' lives easier connected set.
"I deliberation it helps to alteration the originative process, due to the fact that I deliberation erstwhile you've worked retired what the actors are comfy with successful presumption of interaction and consent, and what the movements are going to be, past you adhd the emotion to it," she said. "And past you find the freedom, due to the fact that you're not scrambling and fumbling and trying to find it determination and past successful the moment."
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Still, Lucia inactive says she "loves" Bean arsenic an histrion and appreciates that his comments, nevertheless controversial, helped unfastened a dialogue.
"People don't truly cognize what it is that we do," she admitted. "Some question wherefore we're there. It tin inactive beryllium weird for radical who wonderment if I'm checking up connected whether they're adhering to the rules of a closed set."
Lucia argued that the tides are starting to crook and opinions similar Bean's are becoming a happening of the past—as evidenced by her acquisition moving connected The White Lotus.
"In Italy they don't truly person a batch of acquisition of intimacy coordinators yet," she said, "but the actors I worked with are present advocating for intimacy coordinators going forward."
House of the Dragon airs Sundays astatine 9 p.m. connected HBO.
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