Rob Lowe has a scorching take about intercourse scenes in Hollywood.
The 60-year-old actor welcomed Kristin Davis on his “Literally!” podcast final week and so they mentioned the shortage of steamy on-screen moments in movie these days.
“Nobody has sex scenes in movies anymore,” Lowe stated.
However Lowe walked again his remark when Davis, 60, talked about Nicole Kidman’s erotic movie “Babygirl,” the place Kidman, 57, performs a New York CEO who has an affair along with her a lot youthful intern.
“Oh, I’ve seen it. I take it back,” stated Lowe. “It’s pretty great. It’s pretty hot. Babygirl’s great.”
Davis, who hasn’t seen “Babygirl,” stated that intercourse scenes in motion pictures have turn out to be “an unusual thing now.”
“They’re like, ‘Oh, it’s so brave. She’s so brave,’” Lowe stated sarcastically. “She’s brave because she has a sex scene. That’s brave now. And in our day, it was required. There’s the page 73 rule. In the day, the sex scene was always on page 73.”
The “St. Elmos Fire” actor defined, “You get a script and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, how gratuitous. Do I have to be naked in this? Let me check.’ And you didn’t have to read the whole script. You just went to page 73 because of that mid–second act. Which is notoriously the toughest sledding in storytelling. ‘I know. They ‘Blue Lagoon’ it. Beach under a moonlit night.’”
Davis famous that “things have changed, and continue to change so much” in filmmaking, prompting Lowe to share that his “attitude” concerning the matter is to “make the most of it in disruption, is actually a great time to build new things.”
Lowe additionally recalled how Hollywood studios reacted to one in every of his risqué motion pictures from the Nineteen Eighties.
“Kim Cattrall and I did a movie called Masquerade together, which, I love that movie,” he stated. “It got good reviews, but the studio kind of dumped it because they thought it was too sexy. It was pretty gratuitous, but it was great.”
Kidman, for her half, has opened up about feeling empowered from her position in “Babygirl.”
“A lot of times women are discarded at a certain period of their career as a sexual being. So it was really beautiful to be seen in this way,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter in December.
“From the minute I read it, I was like, ‘Yeah, this is a voice I haven’t seen, this is a place that I haven’t been, I don’t think audiences have been,’” Kidman continued. “My character has reached a stage where she’s got all this power, but she’s not sure who she is, what she wants, what she desires, even though she seems to have it all. And I think that’s really relatable.”
