Jane Fonda has weighed in on the use of intimacy coordinators in filmmaking and the Oscar winner is giving the practice a big thumbs up.
Fonda, 87, who stunned during the closing ceremonies at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, opened up about the topic in an interview with Women’s Wear Daily.
‘Every time you begin a movie, you have training. What to do if there’s a problem,’ she explained about the way the new system implemented post #MeToo.
‘That never happened,’ the Barbarella actress said of her days on the set.
‘I wish that we had them when I was doing sex scenes because it’s hard,’ the Klute actress explained.
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Jane Fonda has weighed in on the use of intimacy coordinators in filmmaking and the Oscar winner is giving the practice a big thumbs up; Pictured in Cannes on May 24
‘You want me to say to a guy you’re supposed to look like you’re in love with and you say, “But please don’t uncover my breast on the left side.” You know, you don’t do that.’
In the 2022 documentary Body Parts, Fonda revealed her compliance in taking on roles that required her to be physically vulnerable.
‘I was at a place in my life where if you were asked to do something, especially by a man, you did it,’ she said in the Kristy Guevara-Flanagan directed film.
Fonda is the latest actress to weigh in on the intimacy coordinator debate, which has taken over Hollywood amid the ongoing legal battle between It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni over claims of sexual harassment.
Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan, 38, who shared a very steamy sex scene with co-star Luke Newton in season three of the Netflix hit, said last year that she was grateful to have a coordinator available.
‘[We had] an amazing intimacy coordinator, Lizzy Talbot, who was there and she treats it like a stunt,’ the actress to This Morning in the U.K. in March 2024.
She and her co-star Luke Thompson ‘had a lot of say in what we wanted to do as well, which was great… Luke and I actually … had ideas about how we wanted things to play out, which was great because we really felt like we were in control,’ she explained of the experience.
Oscar winner Kate Winslet, 49, told The New York Times last year that she would have ‘benefited’ from an onset intimacy coordinator.
‘I would have benefited from an intimacy coordinator every single time I had to do a love scene or be partially naked or even a kissing scene,’ she said.
‘Every time you begin a movie, you have training. What to do if there’s a problem,’ she explained about the way the new system implemented post #MeToo; Pictured in Cannes on May 24
‘That never happened,’ the Barbarella actress said of her days on the set she told Women’s Wear Daily; Circa 1968
‘I wish that we had them when I was doing sex scenes because it’s hard,’ the Klute actress explained; Pictured with Donald Sutherland in 1971
‘It would have been nice to have had someone in my corner, because I always had to stand up for myself.’
Winslet explained that young actors and actresses are often ‘afraid’ to speak up for themselves.
‘When you’re young, you’re so afraid of pissing people off or coming across as rude or pathetic because you might need those things,’ she shared.
So learning to have a voice for oneself in those environments was very, very hard.’
Two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone also remarked on the use on intimacy coordinators while while previously talking to NPR about her X-rated role in Poor Things.
‘I don’t think having an intimacy coordinator is even a choice anymore. I think in the past five years, the industry has changed a lot for the better,’ the 36-year-old actress said.
She sees intimacy coordinators as a ‘safety net’ on set.
Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan, 38, who shared a very steamy sex scene with co-star Luke Newton in season three of the Netflix hit, was grateful to have a coordinator available
Oscar winner Kate Winslet told the NYT ‘I would have benefited from an intimacy coordinator every single time I had to do a love scene or be partially naked or even a kissing scene’; seen in 2024
‘I don’t think having an intimacy coordinator is even a choice anymore. I think in the past five years, the industry has changed a lot for the better,’ Emma Stone previously told NPR; seen in May 2025
‘Having [coordinator Elle McAlpine] there felt like having both a safety net and a choreographer and a handhold,’ Stone concluded.
Outlander star Sam Heughan, 45, asked for the execs behind the hit series to hire an intimacy coordinator for the filming of season six in 2022.
He said he and co-star Caitríona Balfe ‘were thrown in the deep end and had to learn through the experience,’ when the show first began production in 2014.
With the addition of new characters in season six, he said it was important ‘to help younger actors with less experience.’
