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Their presence on set is supposed to make stars feel as comfortable as possible while filming sex scenes.
But for Rebecca Ferguson, intimacy coordinators are everything but.
For the 42-year-old prefers to do without them as she has her own ‘enormous boundaries’ and isn’t afraid to speak up.
The Swedish-born actress plays Romani temptress Kaulo in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man – released on Friday on Netflix – and shares a sex scene with leading man Cillian Murphy, 49.
Mother of two Ms Ferguson, a star of the Mission Impossible series and the Dune movies, said: ‘It’s wonderful that we can have intimacy co-ordinators… but for me, it’s very off-putting and it makes me feel uncomfortable because I have enormous boundaries and I can verbalise them.’
She told Radio Times: ‘I had called Cillian and asked him how he wanted to work.
‘It sounds so silly, but I said, ”I’ve studied your sex scenes,” and he was like, ”That’s really weird and awkward”.
‘And I went, ”I know but bear with me. This is not just a regular sex scene. This is not us getting our kit off, getting on with it, bish bash bosh. This is a moment of release. This is a moment of intimacy, there’s magic”.’
It’s been a long wait for fans of the franchise, with show creator Steven Knight first teasing the release of a film back in 2021, before it was confirmed last year.
While it has been made available to view in select cinemas from March 6, 2026, the wider public will be able to stream on Netflix from March 20 – and have been waiting to find out more details of what’s in store for their beloved Thomas Shelby.
The film will pick up four years after viewers last said goodbye to the Shelby clan in the series finale of Peaky Blinders.
Tommy, who has been played by Murphy since the show’s debut in 2013, will be driven back to Birmingham from his self-imposed exile in the movie.
The freshly dropped trailer sees the character living far away from home, living alone, when his past finally begins to catch up with him during World War II.
‘You’ll live in a house haunted with ghosts, of people who died because of you,’ a voiceover begins as Tommy is shown back on screen for the first time.
He’s then shown standing opposite new character, Ferguson’s character Kaulo, a new acquaintance to Cillian’s Tommy, as she tells him: ‘You abandoned your kingdom, and you abandoned your son.’
When Stephen Graham’s Hayden Stagg tells Tommy that he thought ‘he’d decided it wasn’t his war’ to fight, Tommy menacingly replies: ‘It is now.’
Tommy is then seen back in his old haunt, met by unfamiliar faces who don’t know who he is, and asking for details on why he’s back.
Luckily for Tommy, Jordan Bolgar’s Isaiah Jesus, a young member of the Birmingham gang and the son of preacher Jeremiah Jesus, Tommy’s loyal lieutenant, is there to remind everyone.
A series of powerful explosions then follow, teasing the dramatic scenes to come, before Tommy concludes: ‘Once, I nearly got f**king everything… but nearly doesn’t count.’