Every Star Who Has Refused Working With Intimacy Coordinators

Some celebrities aren’t always fans of using intimacy coordinators on set.

Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she and Robert Pattinson felt comfortable without a coordinator while filming the more intimate scenes in their 2025 film, Die My Love.

“We did not have [an intimacy coordinator], or maybe we did but we didn’t really,” she shared on an episode of the “Las Culturistas” podcast in November 2025. “I felt really safe with Rob. He is not pervy and very in love with [his partner] Suki Waterhouse.”

According to Lawrence, she and Pattinson spent lots of time on set just “talking about our kids and relationships.”

“There was never any weird like, ‘Does he think I like him?’” she explained to hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. “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*** them, and then the punishment starts. He was not like that.”

Keep scrolling to see more celebrities who have turned down using an intimacy coordinator:

Gwyneth Paltrow and Timothee Chalamet

For their 2025 film Marty Supreme, Gwyneth Paltrow and Timothée Chalamet got offered an intimacy coordinator — but decided not to use it.

“I mean, we have a lot of sex in this movie. There’s a lot — a lot,” she told Vanity Fair in a March 2025 interview. “There’s now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed. I was like, ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.’ We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little back.’”

Paltrow noted that she’s not sure “how it is for kids who are” starting in the industry, but she doesn’t fully think intimacy coordinators are the best for delivering the strongest performance.

“If someone is like, ‘OK, and then he’s going to put his hand here’,” she explained. “I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that,” she explained.

Alison Brie and Dave Franco

Alison Brie and Dave Franco, who tied the knot in 2017, did not need an intimacy coordinator to shoot sex scenes for their 2025 body horror movie Together.

“As a couple, we didn’t need an intimacy coordinator,” Franco told London’s The Times in an August 2025 interview. “We’ve been together almost 15 years; we know what we’re doing and we’re pretty comfortable with it.”

Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly

The NCIS: Tony & Ziva actress turned down an intimacy coordinator for scenes with her onscreen love interest Michael Weatherly.

“Did not need one,” Cote de Pablo told TV Insider in a July 2025 interview. “They asked me first, I think because I’m a female and blah, blah, blah, and I said, ‘I don’t need one. Thank you for offering.’”

De Pablo explained that she was already comfortable with Weatherly after working with him on NCIS.

“Michael and I have a lot of trust with each other and are great friends,” she shared. “So, when it comes to shooting these things we don’t want to be micromanaged. We like to explore it, and we trust each other enough that we allow that to happen.”

Weatherly, for his part, agreed with de Pablo’s views noting that he said to do “whatever Cote wants.”

“Love scenes are complicated because that level of nonverbal communication — you kiss someone the way you want to be kissed or you touch someone the way you want to be touched — that is a deep level of communication,” he told the outlet. “Physical interaction starts with trust. Luckily, Cote and I do not have an issue in that area. We had to do that right out of the gate in [NCIS’ ‘Under Covers’] episode.”

Mikey Madison

The Oscar winner shared that she did not use an intimacy coordinator while filming 2024’s Anora.

“For our film, it was a choice that I made; the filmmakers offered me, if I wanted, an intimacy coordinator,” Mikey Madison explained during a December 2024 interview with Variety. “Mark Eydelshteyn, who plays Ivan, and I decided it would be best to just keep it small. My character is a sex worker and I had seen [director] Sean [Baker’s] films and know his dedication to authenticity. I was ready for it. As an actress, I approached it as a job.”

Jennifer Aniston and Jon Hamm

While filming her intimate scenes with Jon Hamm in Apple TV+’s The Morning Show, Jennifer Aniston turned down the use of an intimacy coordinator.

“Having [director] Mimi [Leder] there, you’re protected,” she told Variety in a December 2023 interview. “I never felt uncomfortable. Jon was such a gentleman, always — I mean every move, every cut, ‘You OK?’ It was also very choreographed. That’s the beauty of Mimi and our gorgeous editor, the music and lighting. So, you don’t prepare.”

While they asked Aniston if she wanted another person in the room, she thought that she and Hamm could do it themselves.

“I’m from the olden days, so I was like, ‘What does that mean?’” she recalled to the outlet. “They said, ‘Where someone asks you if you’re OK,’ and I’m like, ‘Please, this is awkward enough!’ We’re seasoned — we can figure this one out. And we had Mimi there.”

Toni Collette

Collette shared that she has been asked before if she needed an intimacy coordinator on previous sets, but she felt “very much trusted” and “at ease with the people” she was working with.

“It just felt like those people who were brought in to make me feel more at ease were actually making me feel more anxious,” she explained to The Times in March 2023. “They weren’t helping, so I asked them to leave.”

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

While filming their 2025 film Die My Love, Jennifer Lawrence declined to use an intimacy coordinator because of how “safe” she felt with Robert Pattinson.

“He is not pervy and very in love with [his partner] Suki Waterhouse,” she shared on an episode of “Las Culturistas” in November 2025.

Lawrence explained that there was never “any weird” questioning if Pattinson thought she liked him.

“If there was a little bit of that I would probably have an intimacy coordinator,” she said. “A lot of male actors get offended if you don’t want to f*** them, and then the punishment starts. He was not like that.”