Coel spoke powerfully of the “internal devastation” she had felt working on shows that had no intimacy coordinator.
Too many film and television bosses still do not understand the value of intimacy coordinators and hire them purely as a box-ticking exercise, one of the industry’s leading figures has said.
“It is so fantastic that she put it like that because that is absolutely what happens,” O’Brien told the Guardian.
“Michaela is such an incredible woman.” O’Brien’s role in productions is a relatively new one but, she said, a vital one.