Aidan Turner has opened up about the lack of intimacy co-ordinators in some of his past projects ahead of the launch of his upcoming Prime Video drama Fifteen-Love.

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The new series sees the popular star take on the role of a tennis coach who is accused of sexual assault by his former athlete mentee, played by Ella Lily Hyland.

Turner opened up about how important it was to have an intimacy coordinator on set for the dark drama, especially compared to working on projects that didn't have one.

"It's just a few years ago when it wouldn't be commonplace to have an intimacy coordinator on set. And then a few years before that, I mean, the term wasn't even known," he told Metro.co.uk.

"It was awkward in some moments. Not always, but directors, I found in my experience, weren't always great at doing that."

He explained that some directors had "the rough parameters of what they want, but then would slowly 'Homer Simpson back into the bush' and disappear a little bit, and then you're left with just the two actors going, 'OK, let's figure this out.'"

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Such an approach wouldn't have worked for Fifteen-Love, Turner added. "In our story here, absolutely, we needed somebody," he said.

"To have the scene do what it's supposed to do, and not just a generic thing, whatever the intimacy of the scene is, to try and achieve that creatively with the intimacy coordinator you can really get into the depths of that with that physical movement."

Fifteen Love will air on Prime Video on 21st July 2023 – try Prime Video for free for 30 days.

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