Michael Douglas discusses intimacy coordinators and insists in his heyday ... trends now
Michael Douglas has discussed the use of intimacy coordinators on film sets.
In a new interview, the iconic actor, 79, insisted that in his heyday - the late 1980s and early 1990s - actors themselves would 'take care of those that overstep boundaries.'
Michael also explained how such behaviours would result in a negative reputation for the perpetrator, which would 'take care of them.'
With the rise of modern safeguarding measures, the Basic Instincts star admitted that has indeed mused on their inclusion in the TV and movie industries.
Michael revealed how he and women he acted with in 'sexual movies' have joked about what working with an intimacy coordinator would have been like.
Michael Douglas, 79, has discussed the use of intimacy coordinators, insisting that in his heyday actors themselves would 'take care of those that overstep boundaries'
The actor explained how such behaviours resulted in a negative reputation for the perpetrator, which would 'take care of them' (Pictured with Sharon Stone, 66, in 1992 film Basic Instinct)
Speaking to The Telegraph, Michael said: 'I'm sure there were people that overstepped their boundaries, but before, we seemed to take care of that ourselves. They would get a reputation and that would take care of them.
'But I talked to the ladies, [because] I did a few of those sex movies – sexual movies – and we joke about it now, what it would have been like to have an intimacy coordinator working with us…'.
Michael's comments come a month after his Basic Instincts co-star Sharon Stone, 66, revealed the identity of the producer who pressured her to have sex with an actor.
She also revealed the actor she was pushed to get intimate with in order to improve their on-screen chemistry.
The actress previously discussed the situation in her 2021 memoir - without disclosing identities - but has now divulged that the producer was Robert Evans, the actor was Alec Baldwin's brother Billy, and the film was Sliver in 1993.
Robert, who died in 2019, was also a producer on Chinatown and The Cotton Club, and headed production at Paramount for The Godfather, The Italian Job, True Grit and The Great Gatsby.
Sliver was Sharon's next movie after achieving huge success and megastardom in the previous year's hit Basic Instinct.
Speaking on Louis Theroux's podcast, she said: 'They expected me to bring home another giant smash hit and they gave me casting approval and they gave me all these approvals, but then when it came time for me to do it they told me
