We all know the story by now. In the wake of the Me Too movement, Hollywood scrambled to clean up their act in lots of ways.

There were firings, press releases, promises to do better.

And a new approach to filming sex scenes using intimacy

coordinators. Since sex scenes became a thing in modern cinema all the way

back in the 1930s, really. Each director in production had approached

sex scenes in their own way, some with closed sets, others with crew walking in and out

throughout, some with careful choreography. others with crew walking in and out throughout.

Some with careful choreography, others totally improvised.

Without clear systems, things could go really badly.

Like an actor ends up being surprised, which famously happened in the unscripted assault scene in Lestango in Paris, or an actor feels pressured to go

further with nudity in the moment.

Intimacy coordinators promised to bring guidelines on set so that actors knew what to expect

and could get more support and say in the process. But until this conversation I didn't really have a sense of how

that job fit in creatively on a movie set. I pictured someone with a clipboard like an HR rep there to monitor things and

protect the studio from liability. I did not expect L. McAlpine who in the course of

our conversation very charmingly described all the different ways women's bodies can move during orgasms

and she made these different heaving exhale sounds to make her point.

I first heard about L because she did the intimacy coordination for poor things.

The Emma Stone movie directed by Yorgos Lanthemos.

There is lots of sex in that movie.

Sexy sex, funny sex, upsetting sex.

Elle also worked on one of my favorite recent shows,

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