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Sarah El-Mahmoud

Olivia Cooke Got Candid About Filming Sex Scenes And What Makes A Good Intimacy Coordinator

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Olivia Cooke with red hair smiling in a dark restaurant in The Girlfriend .

As we anticipate the third season of House of the Dragon (likely coming in 2026), the HBO series’ star Olivia Cooke has taken a break from Alicent Hightower and the Game of Thrones franchise to star in Amazon Prime’s The Girlfriend. The series on the 2025 TV schedule that just released in full sparked Cooke to talk about what filming sex scenes and why she’s pro-intimacy coordinators.

The prominence of Intimacy coordinators on movie and TV sets started in reaction to the #MeToo Movement around 2018, and has been an ongoing topic among Hollywood filmmakers and talent ever since. From Cooke’s perspective, sex scenes can place actors in “really precarious and vulnerable situations”, and it might be difficult for young women in particular to speak up in fear one might be labelled as “difficult” or “a bitch.”

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