“He’s a man of a certain age.”

Or maybe he’s had a bad experience of working with an intimacy coordinator."

“It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things.”

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‘House of the Dragon’ intimacy coordinator responds to Sean Bean’s remarks about her profession taking away the spontaneity from sex scenes.Ollie Upton/HBO; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic

“It should only be technical,” Jamil tweeted.

“It’s like a stunt.

Our job as actors is to make it not look technical.

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“We have to pretend that we have never done this before,” she said.

“We have to suggest that everything is spontaneous.

You have a script, so you don’t come out with these words spontaneously.

You have to work on it so that it gives the impression of spontaneous.

That’s where it doesn’t make sense to me, what he said.”

That involved various conversations with Alcock, Lucia, and director Clare Kilner.

“Anyone who’s ever had sex will tell you sex ain’t that beautiful.

It isn’t some picturesque, amazing thing.

It’s awkward, especially when you are young.