Intimacy coordinator ‘appalled’ by graphic Lily-Rose Depp scene in ‘The Idol’

Intimacy coordinator ‘appalled’ by graphic Lily-Rose Depp scene in ‘The Idol’

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, told Variety in an interview published Friday.

Intimacy coordinator Marci Liroff shared her reaction to a graphic scene from “The Idol” premiere, which she felt was “making fun” of her profession.
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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 Sєxually intimate scenes] must hire in an intimacy coordinator.

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.
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It set a standard, and many other streamers and networks have followed along,” she continued.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.”

“They were using us as the ʙuтт of the joke,” she added.

“They were using us as the ʙuтт of the joke,” she said.
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HBO did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

Since before its debut, “The Idol” has faced backlash from critics and viewers for its excessive nudity and graphic Sєx scenes, with Rolling Stone describing the series as a “rape fantasy.”

British GQ also blasted the show’s second episode earlier this week for having the “worst Sєx scene in history.”

“The Idol” has been trashed for its outrageous Sєx scenes and rampant nudity.
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“It’s hard to imagine anything as unSєxy as what we’re told to believe is the most radical, boundary-pushing TV Sєx ever,” Lucy Ford wrote in a review published Monday.

“The dialogue and choreography feel like they’re plucked from the brain of a horned-up teenager who just found out they could google ‘boobs’ on Google Images,” she added.

The provocative drama, co-created by Sam Levinson, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and Reza Fahim, also lost more than 100,000 viewers from its June 4 premiere, per Variety.

This week’s episode was down more than 100,000 viewers from the June 4 premiere.
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Meanwhile, the fate of “The Idol” is up in the air as Season 1 continues to draw criticism. “This was never meant to be a long-running show, it was always … a limited series,” a source told Page Six.

However, a source at HBO said “the door is definitely still open — it’s definitely not a decision [yet]. At this point, this is normal in our process … we’re only two episodes in.”

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