Intimate Industry: How intimacy coordinator Sara Green orchestrates sex scenes in the financial drama
Intimacy coordinator Sara Green discusses her role on HBO and BBC drama Industry and reveals how she worked with actors Marisa Abela, Kit Harington and Kiernan Shipka to create a key scene from the show’s fourth season. In a culture quick to question the necessity of sex on screen, Industry has consistently used intimacy not for titillation, but as a fundamental reveal of character, values and power. Season four, episode three (Habseligkeiten) delivers one such provocative and intimate moment – a scene that demanded vulnerability, sensitivity and incredible skill from its actors. While staying with Austrian fascists on a business trip, Yasmin (Marisa Abela) asserts dominance over her husband Henry Muck (Kit Harington) by orchestrating a sexual encounter with Hayley Clay (Kiernan Shipka). Before bed, Hayley stops by Yasmin and Henry’s room to deliver some paperwork. Yasmin notices the smell of Martinis on her breath and invites her inside. What starts as playful tension and loaded looks quickly escalates as Yasmin commands a threesome, claiming it’s what Henry wants but clearly taking charge herself. The scene features a number of sexual actions between Henry and Hayley, while Yasmin watches and instructs, smoking a cigarette. After Henry and Hayley finish, Yasmin herself pleasures Hayley, and we get a devilish cut to Yasmin slurping oysters the next day. As an intimacy coordinator (IC), my first task was to map out the events of the scene to figure out how we’d transition smoothly between sexual actions while using modesty garments and discreet barriers … Continue reading Intimate Industry: How intimacy coordinator Sara Green orchestrates sex scenes in the financial drama
