Overview

• During a conversation on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, Williams said the show’s many sex scenes would have benefited from professional oversight.
• She recalled Lena Dunham and co-showrunner Jenni Konner improvising an analingus scene’s choreography minutes before filming.
• Williams detailed an intimacy coordinator’s responsibilities, including discussing actors’ boundaries, aligning with a director’s vision and pre-choreographing action.
• The use of intimacy coordinators has grown in the post-#MeToo era to support actor comfort and streamline production on intimate scenes.
• Lena Dunham had expressed similar views in 2022, saying a dedicated coordinator would have eased her dual role as writer-director and lead actor.