SAG-AFTRA Seeks Union Recognition for Intimacy Coordinators
SAG-AFTRA has filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to represent intimacy coordinators in bargaining with the major studios.
The move is the latest step in a five-year effort by the union to professionalize the role of intimacy coordinators, who act as liaisons between performers and the production during the filming of sex scenes.
Getting Nlrb recognition would allow SAG-AFTRA to bargain for minimum pay and working conditions.
“We have no protections,” said Marci Liroff, who has worked as an intimacy coordinator in film and TV. “And we have no health insurance. We have no pension.”
HBO requires intimacy coordinators for filming sex scenes, but there is no such requirement industrywide. The 2023 SAG-AFTRA contract includes a provision requiring producers to use “best efforts” to hire an Ic for scenes involving nudity or sex acts. The provision also says that if a performer requests an Ic, the producer must...
The move is the latest step in a five-year effort by the union to professionalize the role of intimacy coordinators, who act as liaisons between performers and the production during the filming of sex scenes.
Getting Nlrb recognition would allow SAG-AFTRA to bargain for minimum pay and working conditions.
“We have no protections,” said Marci Liroff, who has worked as an intimacy coordinator in film and TV. “And we have no health insurance. We have no pension.”
HBO requires intimacy coordinators for filming sex scenes, but there is no such requirement industrywide. The 2023 SAG-AFTRA contract includes a provision requiring producers to use “best efforts” to hire an Ic for scenes involving nudity or sex acts. The provision also says that if a performer requests an Ic, the producer must...
- 9/25/2024
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
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