The legal dispute between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni highlights the need for intimacy coordinators in film productions. Lively has accused Baldoni of sexual harassment during the filming of 'It Ends with Us', claims he denies. The context of their interactions is complicated by a video Baldoni's legal team released, asserting it proves his innocence. Yet, Lively's team argues it reflects her discomfort during unchoreographed intimate scenes. Experts emphasize that professional intimacy coordinators should be as standard on set as stunt coordinators, to ensure safety and comfort in emotionally charged performances.
Dancing can absolutely be intimate, and this shows having an intimacy coordinator on set should be a given, Ita O'Brien, who pioneered the role, told the Guardian.
In the past, some people would go, I do my own stunts. I don't need a stunt coordinator. Whereas today, if there's a stunt or a fight, you have a stunt coordinator there to offer their skills.
Lively's legal team called the video damning and said it showed Baldoni repeatedly attempting to kiss her, rubbing his face and mouth against her neck.
Baldoni's team retaliated by releasing a video of the pair going through three takes of one scene in which the pair slow dance in a bar.
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