Emily Meade—in her first role since making noise about intimacy coordinators in 2018—spoke to Jezebel about the unsettling nature of the Prime Video series.
“I knew that I was doing what I needed to do for myself and the women on the show, but it’s definitely been hard since, because I have wondered if it’s affected my career,” Meade confided. “There was a lot of anger and there still is. To me, you know, that just shows ignorance, because it’s a movie set. It’s already not real. If a director or an actor is okay with having a stunt coordinator there, it’s no different to have an intimacy coordinator there. It’s not directing the sex scene.
Regardless, she says she has no regrets: “I think it’s insane that this didn’t already exist and I had to even bring this up in the first place. I think there will always be people that are angry about it. That’s just…I don’t know, that’s the cross that I bear when it shows up.
. Both take unflinching looks at an industry that objectifies and makes money off of women, and both pose important questions about what people do and don’t consent to within those industries’ confines, she explained. In one stinging scene in the premiere episode ofin the maternity ward of a hospital hours after giving birth of entirely preventable causes. “She was afraid of the place where she’s supposed to feel the most safe,” Beverly laments.
ally painful but because it is emotionally. So, getting to be a part of the show really confirmed for me that that’s not something I’m making up and that this is a really under-researched, under-nourished,Meade would not have felt safer in the hands of gynecologists like the twins, whose ambition ultimately gives way to the same dehumanization they’ve criticized. And eventually, their actions have grim consequences.
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