Hi Akala, can you tell us a bit about who you are and what you do?
Defined by SAG-AFTRA, an Intimacy Coordinator (IC) is ‘an advocate, a liaison between actors and production … in regard to nudity and simulated sex,’ but the role is much more than that.
It was a very ‘meant to be’ kind of moment. KIS founder and director Michela Carattini was acting in a production with a friend of mine, and after the show we got to talking about cultural safety, especially within vulnerable and intimate scenes. We both realised this is something we really care about and that more needed to be done within Australia to ensure the wellbeing of actors and their safety – and so we’ve been on this journey since then.
