Emma Corrin opened up about intimacy coordinators (Picture: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Emma Corrin has opened up on #MeToo and the importance of intimacy coordinators, explaining that they have previously removed clothes at a director’s request despite feeling uncomfortable.
The actor, best known for their role as Princess Diana in The Crown, said that before the #MeToo movement, they sometimes felt like they had to go along with things for the sake of their career.
‘I’ve done it myself. I’ve been on sets where I’ve been asked to do something and in the moment I’ve done it and then people have come up to me and been like, “Emma, why were you comfortable with that?”‘ they recalled.
‘And I was like, “I just felt I should because we were in the middle of a take and they asked me to take this piece of clothing off and I did it.” But when you’re at the start of your career you feel you have to go along with things.’
Emma, 26, added to The Times that intimacy coordinators are as crucial as stunt coordinators, ‘because of safety, because of those two people’s feelings of being comfortable … even just technically for the crew, working out what shape the scene’s going to take. Once those boundaries are established, then there can be spontaneity in that moment.’
The actor has various new projects coming up, including a new adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and romantic drama My Policeman, which they star in alongside Harry Styles.
They attended the premiere for My Policeman this week (Picture: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Emma posed alongside co-stars including David Dawson (Picture: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The star was recently seen attending the premiere of My Policeman in London, alongside co-stars including David Dawson and Linus Roache, where they rocked an eye-catching dress resembling a bagged goldfish.
Linus told Metro.co.uk of the film: ‘‘It’s a wonderful script, it’s a wonderful book and a great movie adaptation of the story.
Emma is best known for playing Princess Diana in The Crown (Picture: Netflix/ AP)
‘I love movies that travel a lot over the journey of a life and in this one we travel between the 1950s and the 1990s, I think it adds a bigger scope of life to what it’s like to live with heartache and heartbreak over this time.’
He added: ‘I hope the audience have a little bit of gratitude and remembrance for the 1950s and that it was illegal to love who you wanted to love, and that maybe we live in better times even though we’ve got a way to go, and the pain of not being true to who you really are.
‘If that helps liberate people to be who they really are – the movie is quite rich and complex in it’s discussion of love, sexuality, romance and friendship.’
Harry plays Tom Burgess, a gay policeman in 1950s Brighton, who enters into a relationship with museum curator Patrick Hazlewood (David) while being married to schoolteacher Marion Taylor (Emma) in a time when homosexuality was illegal.
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‘When you’re at the start of your career you feel you have to go along with things.’