Navigating Intimacy on Screen: An Interview with Elle McAlpine, Poor Things’ Intimacy Coordinator Setting the Stage for Comfortable Storytelling In the realm of post-#MeToo filmmaking, safe sex scenes have become imperative, and no one understands this better than Elle McAlpine. Recently, as the intimacy coordinator for Yorgos Lanthimos’s fantasy drama, Poor Things, she found herself orchestrating an extravagant orgy involving over 100 dancers. McAlpine chuckles as she recalls her journey home after...