‘Once you get into it, it’s a bit like a fight or a dance [scene],’ says Bridgeton’s intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot of those steamy scenes.

The period show is the most-watched Netflix series of all time but was sensationally snubbed in the Golden Globes nominations this week with many pointing to the racy scenes as the potential reason.

Legions of fans would happily disagree with that sentiment.

Chatting to Newstalk Breakfast Lizzy explained what was really interesting about working on Bridgerton was that the sex scenes were shot from a female perspective.


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‘So I was originally contacted by Chis Van Dusen and all the other producers for Bridgerton and they were very specific with me and they said, ‘You know we want this from the female gaze?’ Which is really unusual and particularly interesting,’ she shared.

Commenting about what her role entails Lizzie explained that: ‘An intimacy coordinator is someone who looks after the advocacy for cast and crew on set and also does all of the choreography for the intimate scenes.’

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As to whether there were any uncomfortable moments on set, she insisted there wasn’t because everyone knew what they were supposed to be doing at all times.

‘We talked through the creative vision, met the actors, and we sort of went through where their consented boundaries are, and then we started into rehearsals.’

‘The awkwardness is a little bit ironed out really because everyone knows what they’re doing beforehand I mean one of the great things about Bridgerton and something that I will be forever grateful for is that they gave us so much rehearsal time so we really did know what we were doing coming into every scene.’

‘Once you get into it, it’s a bit like a fight or a dance [scene] at that point because you know exactly what movement is happening which hand is going where so you know I think that removes a lot of the awkwardness because you’re not sitting there wondering, “What do I do next?”‘

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When asked by host Susan Keogh about other actors like Kiera Knightly refusing to do sex scenes while working with male directors, and the stories some actors might have, Lizzie said glad to see a change in the industry.

She also pointed out that intimacy coordinators weren’t the first people on set to look out for actors.


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‘Something that is really important is that there have been so many people before intimacy coordinators who have stepped up and stepped out for actors but they just weren’t paid to do so it wasn’t really in their job description to do so I’m talking about costume people, hair and makeup and directors as well and so I think it’s wrong to assume that intimacy coordinators are the first people to care about actors safety.’

Lizzie did acknowledge that there was still a long way to go but that the industry has made ‘leaps and bounds.’

While we know that a second series of Bridgerton is in the pipeline she refused to be drawn about her involvement saying: ‘I can’t say too much at the moment.’