Intimacy coordinators are hired by productions to facilitate understanding and safety between actors in sexy scenes. But Jean Smart of the HBO Max series Hacks felt downright uneasy when contacted by her coach the night before a kissing scene. (Watch the interview above.)

I get an email from the intimacy coach telling me that shes gonna be on the set tomorrow just to make sure that everybodys comfortable, Smart told Seth Meyers on Late Night Thursday. And I said, Well, now Im uncomfortable. I wasnt uncomfortable before. Not your fault, I said, but now I feel like a jerk that youre gonna be standing there watching us slow-dance and then he kisses me.

Smart, the Designing Women and Watchmen star whose TV credits stretch back to the late 1970s, suggested that intimacy coordinators might take some getting used to.

Oh God, I thought it was so weird, she said.

The former Frasier star noted that her husband, actor Richard Gilliland, who died in March , had a funny reaction to her appointment with the intimacy coach. He imagined what the legendary Alabama football coach Bear Bryant would say if he were called on set to monitor a love scene.

That would be a great SNL sketch, she said.