Gwyneth Paltrow is being taken to task for comments about on-set intimacy coordinators that a former studio head dubbed “quite irresponsible.”

During Series Mania’s “Let’s Talk About Sex! (And Consent)” panel Tuesday, Caroline Hollick, former chief of the U.K.’s Channel 4, took issue with the Oscar winner’s remarks about her experience on the upcoming “Marty Supreme” in a Vanity Fair story last week.

“Gwyneth Paltrow said she grew up in a time when (people in Hollywood) ‘took our kit off and got on with it,'” said Hollick, according to Deadline. “As a powerful woman in Hollywood acting with a man much younger than her, well I’m sure (star Timothée Chalamet) is chill but I thought it was quite an irresponsible thing to say.”

Intimacy coordinators have become an on-set staple following the #MeToo movement, in which 52-year-old Paltrow’s own experiences with Harvey Weinstein proved a cornerstone. Their presence “empowers an actor because there is someone on (their) side who is there to fight for them,” said Hollick.

Paltrow made the comments with regard to “Marty Supreme,” in which she says she has “a lot of sex … a lot” with Chalamet, 29.

After taking a step back from acting for a few years, Paltrow said she was previously unaware of intimacy coordinators and told the one on the “Marty Supreme” set to “step a little bit back,” explaining, “‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.'”

She added: “I don’t know how it is for kids who are starting out, but … if someone is like, ‘OK, and then he’s going to put his hand here,’ I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that.”

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Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks lead to copyright infringement suit

Kanye West is being sued for copyright infringement, but it’s his antisemitic and racist screeds that are taking center stage in the lawsuit.

German artist Alice Merton as well as two German corporations are suing the 47-year-old rapper, legally known as Ye, for allegedly sampling Merton’s 2022 song “Blindside” in his 2024 track “Gun To My Head” (feat. Kid Cudi), according to a complaint filed Tuesday in California and reviewed by the Daily News.

Merton, 31, was “shocked and humiliated” to learn of Ye’s sampling of her song when he performed “Gun To My Head” — a Ty Dolla $ign collaboration — at a Miami event in December 2023. Two months later, Ye’s camp formally requested to sample “Blindside,” which was denied March 7, 2024, without explanation.

Later that day, after being asked “to give a reason the request was rejected,” Merton responded, “The artist’s values are contrary to our values.”

She was “unwilling to compromise her personal beliefs and wanted not to be associate with Ye in any manner,” reads the complaint, pointing to his ongoing history of “antisematic (sic), racist remarks.”

“Merton is a German resident who has close ties to the Holocaust through Jewish family members who survived its horrors, and as such feels closely connected to it,” reads the complaint.

Merton said outraged fans who learned “Gun To My Head” was not on Ye’s “Vultures” album “blamed Merton for not authorizing” the use of “Blindside,” have contacted her and issued “death threats and abuse.”

Merton says she was concerned enough to stop performing the song and issued a cease and desist to Ye’s camp in August, a move to which he did not respond.

“Ye is no stranger to copyright infringement claims,” reads the complaint, adding that since 2008, he has been accused 14 times. Merton and her fellow plaintiffs are demanding a jury trial.

Last month, Ye unleashed yet another in a long string of antisemitic tirades on X, declaring himself a Nazi, praising Hitler, and even selling swastika-emblazoned T-shirts.

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Ben Affleck breaks silence on ‘drama-free’ Jennifer Lopez divorce

Ben Affleck has spoken for the first time on his divorce from Jennifer Lopez.

The Oscar winner, 52, opened up about the 2024 end to his brief marriage to the 55-year-old Bronx-born pop star in a new profile for GQ, in which he also sang the praises of ex-wife and “really good co-parent” Jennifer Garner, with whom he shares three kids.

“My life is pretty drama-free. … I’m sure in your mind you’re thinking, Oh, well, you just got divorced. That’s not drama-free. And I understand that instinct, but all of this is pretty adult, and for all the sensational stuff that gets written, if somebody sat down and talked to me about it, and I said, ‘Well, this is really the experience,’ their eyes would glaze over with boredom,” the “Good Will Hunting” scribe and star told the magazine in January, on the heels of finalizing his divorce from Lopez early in the month. “There’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue.”

The “Gone Girl” star insists their romance — which included an early aughts engagement — taking center stage in Lopez’s early 2024 documentary, “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,” was not the beginning of the end.

“There are a lot of people who I think have handled celebrity more adeptly and more adroitly than I have, Jennifer among them. … As happens in relationships, you don’t always have the same attitude toward these things,” said Affleck. “You’ve got to own what you knew going into any relationship. And I think it’s important to say that wasn’t the cause of some major fracture.”

Affleck maintains he doesn’t “have any negativity or judgment or anything regarding that. I have nothing but respect” for Lopez, with whom he reconciled in 2021 before saying “I do” in the summer of 2022.

The “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” singer filed for divorce last August, on their second wedding anniversary, and she told Interview Magazine in October that the split “exploded” her “whole (expletive) world.”

From combined wire services