Every time you begin a movie, you have training. What to do if there’s a problem. That never happened,” Fonda said
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Jane Fonda believes intimacy coordinators are vital to film production.
While speaking about how Hollywood has changed following the #MeToo movement, the Oscar-winning actress, 87, told Women’s Wear Daily in an interview at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival that intimacy coordinators — who oversee sex scenes and make sure all parties are comfortable at work — would have been helpful earlier in her career.
“Every time you begin a movie, you have training. What to do if there’s a problem. That never happened,” Fonda said.
“I wish that we had them when I was doing sex scenes because it’s hard,” Fonda continued. “You want me to say to a guy you’re supposed to look like you’re in love with and you say, ‘But please don’t uncover my breast on the left side.’ You know, you don’t do that.”
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The Book Club actress has previously opened up about challenges being intimate on screen as well as having to undress for a role in the 2022 documentary Body Parts directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan.
Discussing her role in the 1968 sci-fi film Barberella, which sees Fonda play a sexy space adventurer, the actress says in the documentary, “I was at a place in my life where if you were asked to do something, especially by a man, you did it.”
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Regarding having intimacy coordinators on set, Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson and Ewan McGregor are among celebrities who’ve shared positive experiences or wishing they were available for past projects.
Winslet, whose career highlights include steamy scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, told The New York Times she would have appreciated having such crew members around for previous roles. “I would have benefited from an intimacy coordinator every single time I had to do a love scene or be partially naked or even a kissing scene,” said The Regime star. “It would have been nice to have had someone in my corner, because I always had to stand up for myself.”
The actress also told the Times abot moments she wishes she had spoken up.
“‘I don’t like that camera angle. I don’t want to stand here full-frontal nude. I don’t want this many people in the room. I want my dressing gown to be closer,’ ” Winslet said. “Just little things like that.
