Intimacy coordinators have voted to join SAG-AFTRA as members of the actors’ union, a major step in a years-long campaign to make the presence of trained experts to oversee intimate scenes on productions an industry standard.
“Since 2019, SAG-AFTRA has been working with intimacy coordinators on a number of key initiatives to grow and safely standardize the profession,” SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said in a Tuesday statement. “Now, five years later, they’ve taken the important step of empowering themselves with union representation! All of us at SAG-AFTRA look forward to working together with them to negotiate a first contract with the AMPTP.”