At the 2024 Oscars on Sunday, John Cena took the stage — seemingly in his birthday suit, save for a winner’s envelope, a Rolex Explorer and some Birkenstocks — to present the award for best costume design. But the wrestler turned actor was actually wearing an item called a modesty garment, often used in film and television to cover an actor’s intimate areas.
After donning the flesh-colored sling as part of a skit that nodded to streaker Robert Opel at the 1974 Academy Awards, Cena was given a curtain-toga to cover up during costume designer Holly Waddington’s acceptance speech for Poor Things.
While the bit about a popular actor’s bits got its share of laughs, the question remains: What is a modesty garment, or modesty pouch, anyway?
Jessica Steinrock, one of the leading intimacy coordinators in Hollywood and CEO of Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, Inc., tells The Hollywood Reporter that there are usually two kinds.
After donning the flesh-colored sling as part of a skit that nodded to streaker Robert Opel at the 1974 Academy Awards, Cena was given a curtain-toga to cover up during costume designer Holly Waddington’s acceptance speech for Poor Things.
While the bit about a popular actor’s bits got its share of laughs, the question remains: What is a modesty garment, or modesty pouch, anyway?
Jessica Steinrock, one of the leading intimacy coordinators in Hollywood and CEO of Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, Inc., tells The Hollywood Reporter that there are usually two kinds.
- 3/11/2024
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chicago – The world broke open and came to a more evolved place after the digital campaign of #MeToo and #TimesUp late last decade. In the entertainment industry especially, the stories of institutional sexual harassment was legion and pervasive. From these ashes, a phoenix arose in the form of an on-set Intimacy Coordinator, who has made a culture of consent part of the acting in love scenes … especially dealing with nudity or simulated sex.
Dr. Jessica Steinrock is a co-founder and CEO of Intimacy Directors & Coordinators, and will appear this weekend at Facets Chicago, moderating a panel on the topic as part of a screening of “Body Parts: Bravery, Betrayal and Baring it All.” For tickets and more information, click Facets Chicago.
The Event: April 15th, 2023 at Facets Chicago
Photo credit: Facets.org
The background and history of the on-set intimacy coordinator began in a theater context … interrelated to other disciplines,...
Dr. Jessica Steinrock is a co-founder and CEO of Intimacy Directors & Coordinators, and will appear this weekend at Facets Chicago, moderating a panel on the topic as part of a screening of “Body Parts: Bravery, Betrayal and Baring it All.” For tickets and more information, click Facets Chicago.
The Event: April 15th, 2023 at Facets Chicago
Photo credit: Facets.org
The background and history of the on-set intimacy coordinator began in a theater context … interrelated to other disciplines,...
- 4/14/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Karyn Kusama wants audiences to see the “role of sex differently” thanks to intimacy coordinators on set.
The “Yellowjackets” and “Jennifer’s Body” director said that she thinks intimacy coordinators actually add more “heat” to scenes when necessary, despite what she sees the misguided assumption that they could spoil depictions of intimacy.
“It demands that you take responsibility for your story with the actors, that you actually say, ‘Yeah, we’re depicting sex and here’s what it needs to mean’ — i.e. it needs to mean something,” Kusama told The New York Times. “And conversely, I can say to an intimacy coordinator, ‘You know, it feels like I’m watching two people peck each other on the cheek, and there’s zero heat here.'”
Per the article, Kusama added that “it’s hard for her to imagine signing on to a project with intimate scenes without one.”
Kusama said...
The “Yellowjackets” and “Jennifer’s Body” director said that she thinks intimacy coordinators actually add more “heat” to scenes when necessary, despite what she sees the misguided assumption that they could spoil depictions of intimacy.
“It demands that you take responsibility for your story with the actors, that you actually say, ‘Yeah, we’re depicting sex and here’s what it needs to mean’ — i.e. it needs to mean something,” Kusama told The New York Times. “And conversely, I can say to an intimacy coordinator, ‘You know, it feels like I’m watching two people peck each other on the cheek, and there’s zero heat here.'”
Per the article, Kusama added that “it’s hard for her to imagine signing on to a project with intimate scenes without one.”
Kusama said...
- 3/3/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
This intimacy coordinator isn’t happy with Millie Bobby Brown.
In a promo video for “Enola Holmes 2” released last month, the actress talked about her on-screen kiss with co-star Louis Partridge.
Read More: Millie Bobby Brown Makes A Statement By Comparing Filtered & Unfiltered Selfies
“Right on the rehearsal I grabbed his face and kissed him and he was like…” she said, doing an impression of his shocked face.
She continued, talking about her character, “It was so cute really seeing her take the lead. And also seeing a girl just make the first move is just really exciting.”
@netflix
Millie Bobby Brown shares what it was like to film *that kiss* in #enolaholmes2
♬ original sound – Netflix
But Brown’s description of that kiss got the attention of TikToker Jessica Steinrock, an intimacy coordinator who has worked on shows like ‘Yellowjackets”, “Winning Time”, who shares tips of the trade and...
In a promo video for “Enola Holmes 2” released last month, the actress talked about her on-screen kiss with co-star Louis Partridge.
Read More: Millie Bobby Brown Makes A Statement By Comparing Filtered & Unfiltered Selfies
“Right on the rehearsal I grabbed his face and kissed him and he was like…” she said, doing an impression of his shocked face.
She continued, talking about her character, “It was so cute really seeing her take the lead. And also seeing a girl just make the first move is just really exciting.”
@netflix
Millie Bobby Brown shares what it was like to film *that kiss* in #enolaholmes2
♬ original sound – Netflix
But Brown’s description of that kiss got the attention of TikToker Jessica Steinrock, an intimacy coordinator who has worked on shows like ‘Yellowjackets”, “Winning Time”, who shares tips of the trade and...
- 12/20/2022
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
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