Gwyneth Paltrow Didn’t Know What an Intimacy Coordinator Was

After a long time in Hollywood, Gwyneth Paltrow had her first encounter with an intimacy coordinator throughout “Marty Supreme.”

Paltrow, who returns to performing with the Josh Safdie-helmed movie after 5 years away from the display screen, informed Vanity Fair that she really had no thought what an intimacy coordinator even was previous to engaged on the A24 movie.

“There’s now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed,” she stated, including that she informed the coordinator at one level, “I was like, ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.’”

As Paltrow teased, there have been a slew of scenes that did warrant one, although. “I mean, we have a lot of sex in this movie,” Paltrow stated, citing her onscreen time with “Marty Supreme” co-star Timothée Chalamet. “There’s a lot — a lot.”

Chalamet performs the “other man” to Paltrow’s character, who’s wed to a ping pong kingpin (Chalamet is the titular fictional character who’s a ping pong champion.)

Paltrow added that at instances, although, she and Chalamet additionally requested the coordinator to “step a little bit back” for sure sequences. “We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back,’ ” Paltrow recalled. “I don’t know how it is for kids who are starting out, but…if someone is like, ‘OK, and then he’s going to put his hand here,’ I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that.”

As VF included, Paltrow shrugged at simulating intercourse with Chalamet, and quipped, “I was like, ‘OK, great. I’m 109 years old. You’re 14.’”

Paltrow additionally couldn’t assist however reward the expertise of Chalamet, in addition to his charismatic charms: She dubbed Oscar-nominated Chalamet a modern-day icon. “He’s such a thinking man’s sex symbol,” Paltrow stated. “He’s just a very polite, properly raised, I was going to say kid…He’s a man who takes his work really seriously and is a fun partner.”

Paltrow beforehand stated throughout the “Drew Barrymore Show” that Chalamet was a perfect co-star that additionally helped ease her nerves about returning to the display screen. “He is such a wonderful young man,” she stated. “He’s very polite, very talented. Just so nice to be with. I’m really having a good time with him. I’m glad that I put myself, you know, out of…just sort of back into fear a little bit again.”