do. Chalamet, 29, stars in new movie Marty Supreme as a ping pong protégé, while Paltrow, 52, plays the wife of a rival professional who falls into bed with him. "I mean, we have a lot of sex in this movie," Paltrow told Vanity Fair. "There's a lot - a lot."

However, she said she had been unaware of the increasingly common use in Hollywood of specialists to oversee such scenes. "There's now something called an intimacy co-ordinator, which I did not know existed." Intimacy co-ordinators became fixtures on film sets to make actors feel safe in the wake of the Me Too movement, which exposed abuse in the industry. Actress-turned-wellness guru Paltrow, whose last starring film role came 10 years ago, recalled how the Marty Supreme co-ordinator asked if she would be comfortable with a certain move during one intimate scene. "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'." Paltrow continued: "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." In 2022, Dame Emma Thompson defended the use of intimacy co-ordinators on film and TV sets after fellow actor Sean Bean said they "spoil the spontaneity" of sex scenes. Paltrow joked that the age difference between her and Chalamet only really dawned on her when they were filming the sex scenes. "OK, great," she recalled thinking. "I'm 109 years old. You're 14." (BBC/ Getty Images)