Gwyneth Paltrow is being taken to task for comments about on-set intimacy coordinators that a former studio head dubbed “quite irresponsible.”
During Series Mania’s “Let’s Talk About Sex! (And Consent)” panel Tuesday, Caroline Hollick, former chief of the U.K.’s Channel 4, took issue with the Oscar winner’s remarks about her experience on the upcoming “Marty Supreme” in a Vanity Fair story last week.
“Gwyneth Paltrow said she grew up in a time when [people in Hollywood] ‘took our kit off and got on with it,’” said Hollick, according to Deadline. “As a powerful woman in Hollywood acting with a man much younger than her, well I’m sure [star Timothée Chalamet] is chill but I thought it was quite an irresponsible thing to say.”
Intimacy coordinators have become an on-set staple following the #MeToo movement, in which 52-year-old Paltrow’s own experiences with Harvey Weinstein proved a cornerstone. Their presence “empowers an actor because there is someone on side who is there to fight for them,” said Hollick.
Paltrow made the comments with regard to “Marty Supreme,” in which she says she has “a lot of sex … a lot” with Chalamet, 29.
After taking a step back from acting for a few years, Paltrow said she was previously unaware of intimacy coordinators and told the one on the “Marty Supreme” set to “step a little bit back,” explaining, “‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.’”
She added: “I don’t know how it is for kids who are starting out, but… if someone is like, ‘OK, and then he’s going to put his hand here,’ I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that.”
