Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t know about intimacy coordinator while filming A24’s Marty Supreme alongside Timothée Chalamet and told them to “step a little bit back.”
In a new interview, the Goop founder opened up about her sex scenes with Chalamet in the film directed by Josh Safdie.
Paltrow told Vanity Fair she was approached by an intimacy coordinator to go over a physical scene and said, “I was like, ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.’”
Intimacy coordinators are people hired to facilitate communication between actors and directors during intimate scenes. This position emerged following the #MeToo movement.
Paltrow and Chalamet were seemingly comfortable with the scenes they had to perform and recalled telling them, “We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back.”
“I don’t know how it is for kids who are starting out, but…if someone is like, ‘Okay, and then he’s going to put his hand here’ … I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that,” she added.
As far as her co-star, Paltrow says Chalamet is “such a thinking man’s sex symbol,” adding, “He’s just a very polite, properly raised, I was going to say kid … He’s a man who takes his work really seriously and is a fun partner.”
Marty Supreme is a film inspired by ping-pong player Marty Reisman. Chalamet plays the role of Marty Mauser. The cast also includes Tyler, the Creator, Odessa A’zion, Penn Jillette, Kevin O’Leary, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher. Marty Supreme is expected to open in theaters on December 25, 2025.
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