How so?

When I was 18, I moved into a cabin in the middle of the woods with no cellphone, no Wi-Fi. I’m a loner, and in Daphne, I got to explore some of the more extroverted side of myself who could go out and be free and live with abandon. It was fun to put myself in the position to think, “If I wasn’t worried about the consequences of taking all these drugs and staying at a bar in Silver Lake until 2 a.m., what would that be like?” Because it’s just not something I would allow myself to do.

How do you approach a love scene differently when there’s a level of improvisation to it?

Luckily, our intimate scenes came toward the end of the shoot, so there was a great level of trust with the actors. In one scene, Sebastian picked me up and took me across the room as the camera followed us, and it was a completely different sex scene than what ended up in the movie. But we had to explore all different parts of these two people’s physical nature to really get down to the essence of what worked for this film thematically.

Was there an intimacy coordinator?

For me, intimacy coaches make me uncomfortable because it feels like another set of eyes that I don’t need. But I have no problem stopping production when I’m uncomfortable, and I don’t think that’s the case for a lot of people, so I think it’s wonderful that there’s a lifeline that people can lean on to know they’ll be protected. That being said, the best thing a director could do is ask an actor right off the bat: “What are you comfortable with? What are your boundaries?”