SAG-AFTRA to establish guidelines for on-set intimacy coordinators

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The actors' union will formulate new guidelines with Alicia Rodis, the co-founder of Intimacy Directors International, who helped popularize intimacy coordinators with her work on Season 2 of HBO's The Deuce. Her involvement prompted HBO to add intimacy coordinators for all of its series. “The guidelines will seek to establish new, relevant policies for nudity and simulated sex; define the duties and standards for intimacy coordinators on productions; and specify acceptable training, vetting and qualifications of intimacy coordinators,” SAG-AFTRA said in a statement.