Since the #MeToo movement, Davies said intimacy co-ordinators – who help during the filming of sex scenes – had become an essential part of many productions.
Referring to Paltrow’s comments, he said actors with her level of influence had little understanding of what it was like for less powerful performers on set, adding: “They are disgraceful human beings.
“They have so much power and so much privilege and they have no idea what it is like to be a jobbing actor with no power on a set. Shame on them.”
Paltrow, 53, won an Oscar in 1999 for the Harvey Weinstein-produced Shakespeare in Love, and was later among the first high-profile people to accuse Weinstein of sexual harassment.
She played Pepper Potts in several Marvel movies and appeared in the Netflix series The Politician, but said she considers Marty Supreme her first serious film role since 2010’s Country Strong.
In March 2025, Paltrow recalled how the film’s co-ordinator had asked if she would be comfortable with a certain move during one intimate scene with Chalamet.
“I was like ‘girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on’,” she said.
“We said ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back’.
“I don’t know how it is for kids who are starting out, but… if someone is like, ‘OK, and then he’s going to put his hand here,’ I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that.”
Paltrow’s views have also been shared by actors Kim Basinger and Sean Bean.
In February 2025, Basinger, who starred opposite Mickey Rourke in the 1986 erotic drama 9 1/2 Weeks, told Variety she would not have wanted an intimacy co-ordinator involved in filming, external, arguing that actors should be able to work out such scenes between themselves.
Meanwhile, in August 2022, Game of Thrones star Bean said intimacy co-ordinators could “spoil the spontaneity”, external of scenes.