Baldur's Gate 3 Actors: Intimacy Coordinators Should Be 'Industry Standard'

In this interview with Baldur’s Gate 3 actresses Devora Wilde and Jennifer English, they discuss how intimacy coordinators should be the industry standard. Devora Wilde plays Lae'zel in Baldur's Gate 3 and Jennifer English plays Shadowheart.

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[Cloud-qloy]

Its odd that this isn't an industry standard. Kind of scary that it isn't. I would think every actor, and director would want the cordinator to keep everyone safe and comfortable. It prevents alot

[Carolina]

i'm so happy that they had a good and healthy workplace, and it's RIDICULOUS that this isn't the standard for any game, movie, tv show, whatever that includes sex scenes!!

[thehippie]

Larian is once again, showing the right way to do things.

[aigledemasyaf]

I hope intimacy coordinators keep becoming more common! I first learned about them from Jennifer Steinrock's channel and I was so pleased to learn that Larian used them -- especially given that sexual trauma is a thing mentioned in more than one storyline.

[Bhazor]

Oh no. Her natural voice is Shadowheart. I can only be in love with so many people y'know?

[shadowcat]

Sounds like a healthy work environment for Mocap- and voice-actors. Good for them.

And if that became an industry standard, gamers would benefit, too, because let's face it, a lot of games don't do too well on the romance-scene-front.

[SPMyers]

They're standard for live action filmmaking so this makes sense!

[feloniousbutterfly]

The minthara storyboards killed me. Every scene deserves that much xD

[laura_laura_laura]

I love the cutaway shots to the guy editing the lewd scenes 🤣

[coyoboyo]

Reason #924 as to why Larian the BG3 staff, and VAs, are schooling the rest of the industry about adding love into games, but also reminding us that a company like Larian should be protected at all costs.

[rafaela]

that's great, it really should be an standard in the industry

[svenskhund]

God when Kotaku doesnt let its jorunalists talk or write articles they can actually get across some pretty good news.

[Starik-]

Kudos to Larian for such a consideration and for the VAs for their amazing professionalism and hard work

[danieladams]

HOLD ON PULLING MINTHARAS HAIR WAS NOT IN THE GAME GIVE UP THE GOODS LARION

[jensb]

I think it tells that passionate roleplayers do this. Since Pathfinder there are safety tools like the X-card at most tables, and it is okay to talk about these subjects in many session 0's to establish trust and limits, and that it is very okay to have the limits. That draw7ng the x card is fine, and not at any moment questioned by anybody. Any DM worth his salt would rather bite his or her own hand off than making the players uncomfortable and this seems like an extension of that.

I am happy that the players in this (the actors) had such a good Gamemaster.

[onceonly]

Weird how people in the comments are comparing this to QA or HR. They literally describe the kinds of things an intimacy coordinator would do for them during work. Your HR manager doesn't come down to the recording studio and stay on site to make sure things remain appropriate and that people continue to feel comfortable, or ask people how they feel about working with certain types of sexualised content in a shared office environment.

HR is an administrative role, and would probably take reports or notes from an intimacy coordinator to pass onto management (assuming management didn't speak to the coordinator directly).

[TheChrisLouis]

I have an answer on why it isnt the industry standard.

AAA Studios need to churn out games in this day and age for max profit. They will easily forego this position to cut corners and ship a product. Hell its more than likely not even a position on their radar. Most studios barely play test. Do we really think they would take the time for intamacy coordinators?

Thats why other devs said not to expect games like BG3 and its a one off. Its not possible with money hungry corporations work flow and it shows in the final product.

[gamergeek]

Are these two good friends?

They hate each other in the game. Lol.

It’s always interesting to see.

[jamesrussels]

Another reason Larian studios is one of the all the best.

[MoonsongReverb]

I wouldn’t mind if they had body doubles, people who do the intimate scenes for them if they want .

The technical staff can replace them with the characters in the game anyway