She recalled the first podcast interview she ever did. She talked about workshops she was doing to help create safer intimate scenes. After she finished, she said the hosts opened the floor to questions. There were "incredibly derogatory" questions, Talbot said. She said one person asked if "eating directors" would soon be needed on set. Over the past several years, as conversations about consent and boundaries have been proliferating across many industries, intimacy coordinators have seen an increasing demand for their services on TV and film productions - and their work is getting more recognition in kind. They have been lampooned and lovingly rendered on shows such as