Episode 119: Intimacy on the Set w/ Amy Northup

Intimacy Coordinators: Act as an advocate and a liaison between actors and other parties, directors producers. Help co create choreography within the boundaries of all parties involved in a scene Is safe and repeatable. Actors are trained to say yes, and consent is not engrained. Our job is to be a cocreator, a colleague and peer. Clarification is not accusation. The mitigation of power dynamics. what makes it hard to ask clarifying questions? Regulating the nervous system Intimacy Coordinators take the pressure off the actor by being their advocate Somatic Regulation: How your nervous system talks to you. How we regulate or disregulate and how we engage in behaviors, reactions, responses based on past traumas, overwhelm, stress, or sleep. The reactions are often from a disregulated nervous system and coming back into regulation and body can be very powerful. How Amy helps get actors back into regulation when they’ve been triggered. Costume tools for keeping the actors protected. Questions to ask: Do you have an intimacy coordinator? Or how is that to be handled? What am I wearing? How is the garment coming off? Where will the hands be? What are the shots? How many cam ops? Will the set be closed? How the stream being regulated? Boundaries and advocacy go so far beyond just intimacy on set. Consent must be informed for it to be true consent. COVID: Ask if there’s going to be a covid compliance officer. Is everyone going to be tested? Whos enforcing it? DONT let it be a producer or a pa. Will 6 feet be regulated? What is preload? Having as much information as possible before you set foot on set is going to set you up for success. It will help you move with some changes. There is a big difference between being unsafe and uncomfortable. Uncomfortable is always going to happen, but having the information keeps you from being unsafe. Amy does consults for prepping intimacy scenes. Got questions, reach out to Amy via our email: [email protected]