Guardian Life & Style (US) • Jan. 13, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
‘We’re a hot button topic’: is intimacy coordinator the most misunderstood job in film-making?
Specialists in choreographing sex scenes have come under fire from the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Mikey Madison – is there any weight to their complaints? When intimacy coordinator Adelaide Waldrop gets asked about her job at parties, she contemplates lying.
“I’ve considered saying I’m an accountant,” she says. When she reveals the truth, the response is almost always seedy.
There are questions about erections, merkins, and inappropriate celebrities. “Or it’s a lot of, ‘Oh we could use one of you at home with me and the missus’, and questions about my sex life,” Waldrop adds.
Source: theguardian.com ↗
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