Heated Rivalry has been blowing up lately, and it’s easy to see why. The steamy queer drama is being compared to other book-to-screen adaptations of romantasy novels, especially the famously heated moments in Bridgerton . This time, though, the spotlight is on a gay couple, and the love scenes are among the steamiest on TV. The show is spicy in all the right ways, and its intimacy coordinator is now explaining how those moments come together, including what happens when actors get a little “too” caught up in the heat of a scene.

Intimacy coordinator Chala Hunter recently spoke with ELLE magazine and got right to one of the questions performers worry about most: What if I get aroused? She follows it with the rule that shapes nearly everything on set:

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