Jennifer Lawrence is still promoting Die, My Love, the Lynne Ramsay film which has gotten a lot of awards-buzz for months. Jennifer is doing what she does best – being funny and honest in interviews and watching the headlines and commentary roll in. In the past week, she’s made a few comments which have garnered some commentary. This was what she said about whether she and Robert Pattinson used an intimacy coordinator on DML:

“We did not have [an intimacy coordinator], or maybe we did but we didn’t really… I felt really safe with Rob. He is not pervy and very in love with [partner] Suki Waterhouse. We mostly were just talking about our kids and relationships. There was never any weird like, ‘Does he think I like him?’ If there was a little bit of that I would probably have an intimacy coordinator. A lot of male actors get offended if you don’t want to f–k them, and then the punishment starts. He was not like that.”

[From Variety]

One, I believe Rob is like this – he’s not looking to “punish” a female costar for feeling any kind of way about intimate scenes, and good for him. The women he’s worked with have always sung his praises and he seems like a great guy. Two, I think it would be better if actors of Jennifer and Rob’s caliber would normalize intimacy coordinators at every level, even if they don’t feel like they need one in a highly specific situation. An intimacy coordinator is there to protect more than just Jennifer/the actress. The coordinator could have facilitated all of the conversations about nudity and intimate scenes and protected Rob as well.

Additionally, Jennifer spoke about what it was like to work with a female director, and how she feels like male directors need to declare that “I’m directing this.”

“Not all men! [Laughs] But I have found a commonality in female directors, which is that they do not do this thing, which is overdirect. There have been some times when I’ve worked with male directors where there’s this need to constantly feel like they’re directing the movie. And it’s not even really getting anything done. It’s just annoying. When I think auteur, my mind kind of goes to controlling and … what’s that word? Neurotic!”

“And Lynne was the opposite. She really built this world and made sure that we were all on the same page, through music and conversations and the atmosphere and the set. And then she would just kind of slowly walk back. And sometimes, from the discomfort of that, from the lack of her visibility, something interesting would come from it. And then she would come out and be like [affects a Scottish accent], “That’s great, great, yeah, do it again.” Or we would accidentally laugh and be like, “Oh, sorry.” And she’d be like, “No, it was great. I liked that you laughed. Do it again.”

[From Vulture]

What’s sort of funny (to me) about Jennifer saying this is that she’s famously had some really dysfunctional relationships with male directors and she’s barely worked with many female directors in her career.

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