Florence Pugh has blamed an intimacy coordinator for making a sex scene 'weird and awkward'

Florence Pugh has blamed an intimacy coordinator for making a sex scene "weird and awkward".

The 29-year-old actress has reflected on her experiences with the professionals, who help to coordinate intimate filming and ensure everyone feels comfortable, and noted that she believes their roles are still figuring out.

Florence said of the profession on The Louis Theroux Podcast: “It’s not to get in the way. It’s not to confuse, it’s not to make things more complicated or make things more awkward. I’ve had good ones and bad ones.”

The We Live in Time star has always been "quite confident" and "quite happy in [her] skin" working without such an expert, and recalled a time when someone on set was "completely inappropriate" to direct a sex scene and there wasn't an intimacy coordinator there to protect her.

She added: "But my view is changing about it as well, because I’m now having fantastic experiences with intimacy coordinators.

“However, that being said, I’ve also had a shit example where someone just made it so weird and so awkward and really wasn’t helpful and kind of was just like wanting to be a part of the set in a way that wasn’t helpful, and I think it’s a job that’s still figuring itself out.”