Sir Ian McKellen says intimacy co-ordinators can ruin ‘purity’ of theatre

Sir Ian McKellen: Intimacy coordinators can affect the purity of productions (PA)

Ian McKellen says having trained intimacy co-ordinators on set can affect the “purity” of theatre productions.

The veteran of stage and screen said that in the earlier stages of his career, matters requiring such co-ordinators would have “taken care of themselves”.