“When it comes to sex or kissing scenes, however, many directors still say to the actors: you'll do that,” says Effertz.
No samples, no agreements, no demarcation and no risk assessment.
But Julia Effertz is convinced that the risk of injury is huge, for the soul and therefore also always for the body.
The 40-year-old is Germany's first intimacy coordinator.
The best-known negative example is Bernardo Bertolucci's “The Last Tango in Paris” from 1972 with Marlon Brando and the young Maria Schneider. For one scene, Bertolucci and Brando, who was almost 50 at the time, took the 19-year-old Schneider by surprise with an unsettled anal rape scene.