Overview
- Pugh made the remarks on The Louis Theroux Podcast, saying she has worked with both excellent and ineffective intimacy coordinators.
- She said talented coordinators elevate scenes by shaping the "dance of intimacy" through advance planning, safe words, coverage oversight and clear contractual boundaries.
- Reflecting on work before the role existed, Pugh recalled directors asking her to do things she considered completely inappropriate.
- She described a notably poor experience in which a coordinator "made it so weird and so awkward" and was not helpful on set.
- Pugh also emphasized performer agency, recounting a time her male co-star had to tell a director to stop pushing for additional emotionally draining takes.