The internet can be an intense place to communicate. Stripped of volume and perceptible tone, every word seems to hold more significance than it would in-person. Each punctuation mark carries extra weight.
A TV show came out in 2020 that quarantine or no quarantine made us all sad and horny. We re talking, of course, about the BBC and Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney s best-selling novel Normal People,
starring Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Since there s been enough sad this year to last us a lifetime, let s talk about sex instead. The show s intimacy coordinator, Ita O Brien (founder of Intimacy on Set and author of the Intimacy on Set guidelines, which protect performers during scenes that involve sex or nudity), takes us inside the creation of those steamy scenes.
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