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March 22, 2024
Star Wars Actor claims Intimacy Coordinator “Necessary” For Sensual Scenes with Wife
The Obi-Wan Kenobi actor reveals the importance of having an intimacy coordinator when filming explicit scenes with his wife. By: Kritchanon Tan Kian Wei.
US - Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, best known for playing Obi-Wan in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), has recently explained why he requires an intimacy coordinator on-set when filming adult scenes with his wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
In a recent interview with Radio Times about the upcoming historical drama TV miniseries A Gentleman in Moscow (2024) which the couple stars in, McGregor explained: “We did have an intimacy coordinator! It’s still necessary, because it’s about the crew, and it’s odd to be naked in front of people, it’s odd to be intimate in front of the camera.”
“If you were doing a dance scene, you’d have a choreographer. It’s an important part of the work now, because it’s somebody that the director and actors meet in the middle.”
The 52-year-old Golden Globe winner then continues: “My daughter is 22. If an older, famous director goes to a 22-year-old and says, ‘I want you to be naked in this scene,’ that actress might feel, ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to do it, my career might depend on it.’ And then five years after that, she could look back and go, ‘I wish I hadn’t. Why am I naked in that scene? It’s unnecessary.
Now there’s somebody she talks to whose career doesn’t rest on the shoulders of this person.”
Episode 1 of the 8-part miniseries A Gentleman in Moscow, a television adaptation of the bestselling 2016 novel of the same name, premieres on Friday, March 29 on Paramount+ with Showtime, with subsequent episodes airing every week.
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