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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Allison Williams wishes the Girls set had an intimacy coordinator

    The 37-year-old actress played Marnie Michaels in six seasons of Lena Dunham's hit HBO show - which ran from 2012 to 2017 - and she has admitted having someone on hand for the steamy scenes would have been "so helpful".


    She told the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast: "It would have been great, because we had so many sex scenes to prep and work through.

    "It would have been so helpful to have someone who's, like, department head of sex scenes."

    Allison recalled one explicit scene she shared with Ebon Moss-Bachrach - who played her character's boyfriend Desi - in season four premiere Iowa, which aired in January 2015.

    She revealed that Lena and ex ecutive producer Jenni Konner helped them figure the scene out.

    She said: "I have this picture of Lena and [Jenni] acting out the moment where Desi was going down on me ... and I have a picture of them where I think it's Jenni is leaning over a windowsill and Lena is leaning behind her like smiling being like, 'This is what we picture'.

    "And I was like, 'Great!' But they were busy. That should have been someone else's job."

    The same year Girls ended, the film and TV industry as a whole has shifted, with intimacy coordinators now expected to be on sets as the norm.

    Stuntwoman Alicia Rodis was hired by HBO in 2017 to work on The Deuce, and the role was then a requirement for all of the network's projects.

    Allison has worked with them on other projects, and she is full of praise for the positive and vital impact they have.

    She added: "By the time everyone shows up to do it, none of that is being litigated on that day.

    "You already know what you're wearing for your nude covering, what the rules are, if your co-star feels comfortable with a certain type of kissing or not. So you're all just ready to go, and it's so nice."

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