Directors in the U.K. are getting a set of guidelines for directingintimacyscenes while adhering to the complex set of social distancing restrictions due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The new guidelines — entitled "Intimacyin the Time of COVID-19" —are an update to the previously published "Directing Nudity and Simulated Sex" best practices protocols, the U.K.’s firstintimacyguidelines which were launched in late 2019.
Again coming from Directors UK —the professional association for screen directors — the update was compiled in consultation with board members Bill Anderson and Susanna White, alongsideintimacycoordinator Vanessa Coffey.