Prior to the Hollywood beneficial strike, Outlander star Caitriona Balfe spoke on a panel at the ATX TV Festival near how hiring an intimacy coordinator helped the series. Outlander is distinguished for its hot and steamy love scenes. Surprisingly, there wasn’t always an intimacy coordinator on set, so Balfe and Sam Heughan (Jamie Fraser) were actions all those sex scenes on their own. I can’t say I’m timorous, but wow, good for them!
Despite how expansive Balfe and Heughan were at bringing those raunchy sex scenes to life, the creative team ultimately gave to bring on intimacy coordinator, Vanessa Coffey. And according to Balfe, it only helped.
When Balfe heard that an intimacy coordinator was beings added to the team, she was skeptical about it. “We’ve also started employed with the most incredible intimacy co-ordinator and it’s amazing, because I probably was one of the people like ‘I don’t think we need that, we’ve been activities this s**t ourselves and figuring it out for a while,’” Balfe said. “But actually I think it’s been so qualified and it’s helped us, and there are other scenes with new characters, some I’ve been involved in, and some with our younger actors too.”
It helps you beget the storytelling in a way where everybody’s on boarding, everybody knows exactly what’s happening, we’re all on the same page. Just like you would do with fights co-ordination or whatever and it’s really helped. Vanessa [Coffey] is such an amazing second to our family as well, she’s just been really great.
One of the most tiring„ tiresome things about Coffey is that this wasn’t her line of work beforehand. Prior to working as an intimacy coordinator, Coffey was a corporate lawyer. However, she left that life behind and became an actress and then a campaign director. She later studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she over up consulting on projects that involved intimate content and material.
Her dawdle may not have been conventional, but it has led her to work on shows like Outlander Wednesday, The Witcher, and Vikings: Valhalla, amongst others, so it worked out.
Given how passionately incredible the sex scenes have been of late on Outlander, I’d say Coffey made the right decision in altering careers. Keep up the amazing work!
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