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Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
Alison Brie & Dave Franco's Hot Take on Hollywood's Controversial Intimacy Coordinator Conversation
Alison Brie and Dave Franco are busy promoting their body-horror movie, Together, which required quite a few intimate scenes. That's why, as a married couple, they have a hot take on a controversial Hollywood topic. Intimacy coordinators are described as 'advocates… between actors and production, and a movement coach and/or choreographer in regards to nudity and simulated sex and other intimate and hyper-exposed scenes' by the actors' union, SAG-AFTRA. It's a newer behind-the-scenes role that emerged out of the 2017 #MeToo movement and has become an integral part of TV and movie crews. More from SheKnows Gwyneth Paltrow's Spicy Sex Life With Ben Affleck Couldn't Mask His 'Demons' Still, there are some who have criticized having them on set. That's why Brie and Franco's perspective is a fascinating one. 'As a couple, we didn't need an intimacy coordinator,' Franco explained to The Times. 'We've been together almost 15 years; we know what we're doing and we're pretty comfortable with it.' Even with her husband by her side, Brie admitted that it wasn't always easy. 'In our new film, Together, we play a couple whose reliance on each other leads to some quite horrific outcomes, and I'll admit there are some parallels between what's on and off screen,' she added. 'Not the horrific outcomes, but we play a couple who have a solid history together. The film also involves lots of intimate scenes, which was kind of weird. Doing what we had to do in front of a hundred people was a new experience.' Franco even directed her through a sex scene with actor Dan Stevens in the 2020 film, The Rental. Brie revealed there was no 'jealousy' on Franco's part because they 'understand the separation of real emotion and something you're doing at work.' While it sounds like Brie and Franco are open to the idea of an intimacy coordinator if they aren't working together, so A-listers are very opposed to the situation, including Michael Douglas, who seems to prefer the old-school way of making movies. 'I'm sure there were people that overstepped their boundaries, but before, we seemed to take care of that ourselves. They would get a reputation and that would take care of them,' Douglas told The Telegraph in April 2024. The Oscar winner has had quite a few intimate scenes over the years, from Basic Instinct to Fatal Attraction, but he still stands firm on his opinion. 'But I talked to the ladies, [because] I did a few of those sex movies – sexual movies – and we joke about it now, what it would have been like to have an intimacy coordinator working with us…,' he trailed off. Actor Sean Bean also complained about intimacy coordinators in 2022, claiming they 'spoil the spontaneity' and 'inhibit [him] more because it's drawing attention to things,' per The Times Magazine. But performers need to remember that the intimacy coordinator is there to protect all parties involved in the scene — from the actors to the crew. The role will continue to be a hot topic of debate in Hollywood, but hopefully, as time goes on, it will have a greater level of understanding. Before you go, click to see which other stars got naked on camera. Best of SheKnows 20 Times Madonna Reinvented Fashion at the VMAs The Best Photos of Madonna & Lookalike Daughter Lourdes Through The Years 22 Famous Women Who Have Played Roxie in Chicago on Broadway Solve the daily Crossword
The Verge
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 87, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy It's Officially Too Hot Now Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Sabrina Carpenter and Khaby Lame and intimacy coordinators, finally making a dent in Barbarians at the Gate, watching all the Ben Schwartz and Friends I can find on YouTube, planning my days with the new Finalist beta, recklessly installing all the Apple developer betas after WWDC, thoroughly enjoying Dakota Johnson's current press tour, and trying to clear all my inboxes before I go on parental leave. It's… going. I also have for you a much-awaited new browser, a surprise update to a great photo editor, a neat trailer for a meh-looking movie, a classic Steve Jobs speech, and much more. Slightly shorter issue this week, sorry; there's just a lot going on, but I didn't want to leave y'all hanging entirely. Oh, and: we'll be off next week, for Juneteenth, vacation, and general summer chaos reasons. We'll be back in full force after that, though! Let's get into it. (As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What do you want to know more about? What awesome tricks do you know that everyone else should? What app should everyone be using? Tell me everything: installer@ And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.) The Drop Dia. I know there are a lot of Arc fans here in the Installerverse, and I know you, like me, will have a lot of feelings about the company's new and extremely AI-focused browser. Personally, I don't see leaving Arc anytime soon, but there are some really fascinating ideas (and nice design touches) in Dia already. Snapseed 3.0. I completely forgot Snapseed even existed, and now here's a really nice update with a bunch of new editing tools and a nice new redesign! As straightforward photo editors go, this is one of the better ones. The new version is only on iOS right now, but I assume it's heading to Android shortly. ' I Tried To Make Something In America.' I was first turned onto the story of the Smarter Scrubber by a great Search Engine episode, and this is a great companion to the story about what it really takes to bring manufacturing back to the US. And why it's hard to justify. The F1 haptic trailer. That link, and the trailer, will only do anything for you if you have a newer iPhone. But even if you don't care about the movie, the trailer — which actually buzzes in sync with the car's rumbles and revs — is just really, really cool. Android 16. You can't get the cool, colorful new look just yet or the desktop mode I am extremely excited about — there's a lot of good stuff in Android 16 but most of it is coming later. Still, Live Updates look good, and there's some helpful accessibility stuff, as well. The Infinite Machine Olto. I am such a sucker for any kind of futuristic-looking electric scooter, and this one really hits the sweet spot. Part moped, part e-bike, all Blade Runner vibes. If it wasn't $3,500, then I would've probably ordered one already. The Fujifilm X-E5. I kept wondering why Fujifilm didn't just make, like, a hundred different great-looking cameras at every imaginable price because everyone wants a camera this cool. Well, here we are! It's a spin on the X100VI but with interchangeable lenses and a few power-user features. All my photographer friends are going to want this. Call Her Alex. I confess I'm no Call Her Daddy diehard, but I found this two-part doc on Alex Cooper really interesting. Cooper's story is all about understanding people, the internet, and what it means to feel connected now. It's all very low-stakes and somehow also existential? It's only two parts, you should watch it. ' Steve Jobs - 2005 Stanford Commencement Address.' For the 20th anniversary of Jobs' famous (and genuinely fabulous) speech, the Steve Jobs Archive put together a big package of stories, notes, and other materials around the speech. Plus, a newly high-def version of the video. This one's always worth the 15 minutes. Dune: Awakening. Dune has ascended to the rare territory of 'I will check out anything from this franchise, ever, no questions asked.' This game is big on open-world survival and ornithopters, too, so it's even more my kind of thing. And it's apparently punishingly difficult in spots. Crowdsourced Here's what the Installer community is into this week. I want to know what you're into right now as well! Email installer@ or message me on Signal — @davidpierce.11 — with your recommendations for anything and everything, and we'll feature some of our favorites here every week. For even more great recommendations, check out the replies to this post on Threads and this post on Bluesky. 'I had tried the paper planner in the leather Paper Republic journal but since have moved onto the Remarkable Paper Pro color e-ink device which takes everything you like about paper but makes it editable and color coded. Combine this with a Remarkable planner in PDF format off of Etsy and you are golden.' — Jason 'I started reading a manga series from content creator Cory Kenshin called Monsters We Make. So far, I love it. Already preordered Vol. 2.' — Rob 'I recently went down the third party controller rabbit hole after my trusty adapted Xbox One controller finally kicked the bucket, and I wanted something I could use across my PC, phone, handheld, Switch, etc. I've been playing with the GameSir Cyclone 2 for a few weeks, and it feels really deluxe. The thumbsticks are impossibly smooth and accurate thanks to its TMR joysticks. The face buttons took a second for my brain to adjust to; the short travel distance initially registered as mushy, but once I stopped trying to pound the buttons like I was at the arcade, I found the subtle mechanical click super satisfying.' — Sam 'The Apple TV Plus miniseries Long Way Home. It's Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's fourth Long Way series. This time they are touring some European countries on vintage bikes that they fixed, and it's such a light-hearted show from two really down to earth humans. Connecting with other people in different cultures and seeing their journey is such a treat!' — Esmael 'Podcast recommendation: Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Christianity Today. A deep dive into the Satanic Panic of the 80's and 90's.' — Drew ' Splatoon 3 (the free Switch 2 update) and the new How to Train Your Dragon.' — Aaron 'I can't put Mario Kart World down. When I get tired of the intense Knockout Tour mode I go to Free Roam and try to knock out P-Switch challenges, some of which are really tough! I'm obsessed.' — Dave ' Fable, a cool app for finding books with virtual book clubs. It's the closest to a more cozy online bookstore with more honest reviews. I just wish you could click on the author's name to see their other books.' — Astrid 'This is the Summer Games Fest week (formerly E3, RIP) and there are a TON of game demos to try out on Steam. One that has caught my attention / play time the most is Wildgate. It's a team based spaceship shooter where ship crews battle and try to escape with a powerful artifact.' — Sean ' Battlefront 2 is back for some reason. Still looks great.' — Ian Signing off I have long been fascinated by weather forecasting. I recommend Andrew Blum's book, The Weather Machine, to people all the time, as a way to understand both how we learned to predict the weather and why it's a literally culture-changing thing to be able to do so. And if you want to make yourself so, so angry, there's a whole chunk of Michael Lewis's book, The Fifth Risk, about how a bunch of companies managed to basically privatize forecasts… based on government data. The weather is a huge business, an extremely powerful political force, and even more important to our way of life than we realize. And we're really good at predicting the weather! I've also been hearing for years that weather forecasting is a perfect use for AI. It's all about vast quantities of historical data, tiny fluctuations in readings, and finding patterns that often don't want to be found. So, of course, as soon as I read my colleague Justine Calma's story about a new Google project called Weather Lab, I spent the next hour poking through the data to see how well DeepMind managed to predict and track recent storms. It's deeply wonky stuff, but it's cool to see Big Tech trying to figure out Mother Nature — and almost getting it right. Almost.
