Since before its debut, “The Idol” has faced backlash from critics and viewers for its excessive nudity and graphic sex scenes.
Intimacy coordinator Marci Liroff was left feeling “betrayed” by HBO after watching a risqué scene from its controversial series “The Idol.”
The scene in question came during the June 4 premiere episode and showed a fictional intimacy coordinator being locked in the bathroom as Lily-Rose Depp’s pop-star protagonist, Jocelyn, bared her nipples at an album cover shoot. “To be honest, I had a very visceral reaction. I was appalled,” Liroff, who has no connection to the show,The casting director and acting coach also referenced HBO’s groundbreaking decision to bring on Alicia Rodis for “The Deuce” in 2018, marking the first time an intimacy coordinator was hired for a major US production.
“We look at HBO as our stalwart home, so to speak, because their work with [Rodis] was so good that they made it mandatory that all projects on HBO [featuring sexually intimate scenes] must hire in an intimacy coordinator. It set a standard, and many other streamers and networks have followed along,” she continued.
Intimacy coordinator Marci Liroff shared her reaction to a graphic scene from “The Idol” premiere, which she felt was “making fun” of her profession.Liroff told Variety she was “appalled” when Lily-Rose Depp’s character flashed her breasts and a fictional intimacy coordinator was locked in the bathroom.Liroff — whose previous credits include “Hightown,” “This Is Us” and “From Scratch” — admitted she felt like HBO was “making fun of us and the job” by including that scene in “The Idol.
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