The Telegraph
‘No tongues’: My life as a screen intimacy director
When Michaela Coel accepted her Bafta for best leading actress this week, she decided to highlight the importance of something too long overlooked by the entertainment industry. “I know what it’s like to shoot without an intimacy director – the messy, embarrassing feeling for the crew, the internal devastation for the actor,” she said, dedicating her prize to me, the intimacy director for her award-winning BBC drama about sexual consent, I May Destroy You. It goes without saying that I felt incr