In Isabella Ferrari’s latest interview with Belve, prompted by host Francesca Fagnani about the sex scene in Nanni Moretti’s Caos Calmo, the actress comments on it saying that at the time it caused a lot of scandal, so much so that she was afraid of getting ‘stuck’ in the character, and she brings up an actress to whom this fate befell her because of a mishandled sex scene, Maria Schneider in Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris.
Sex scenes are a sensitive subject, and film and television productions are raising the question of how to portray intimacy on the set while respecting the psycho-physical balance of actors and actresses and, at the same time, protecting themselves from legal wrangling. With this purpose the figure of the intimacy coordinator was born, a professionality new to Italy, which was also discussed during the panel organized by Anica Academy during the MIA | Mercato Internazionale dell’Audiovisivo in Rome.
“Ours is a mediation work that can start already in the preparatory phase: the sooner we can get involved, the sooner we can get good results,” explains Luisa Lazzaro, Certified Intimacy Coordinator, present on the set of Ferzan Ozpetek’s new film Nuovo Olimpo and in the Netflix series Supersex about porn star Rocco Siffredi.
Anica Academy ETS Foundation has launched the first training course in our country, organized in collaboration with Safe Sets, one of the leading international training institutions on Intimacy Coordination, in partnership with Sky Italia as the main sponsor and with the contribution of Sky Studios.
