As intimacy coordinators turn out to be the norm on film units, Rob Lowe is reflecting on a as soon as unwritten rule in Hollywood.
The 6x Golden Globe nominee recounted the “web page 73 rule” for screenplays as he mourned the shortage of intercourse scenes in right this moment’s motion pictures, in comparison with his heyday with movies like 1988’s Masquerade, which he famous the studio dumped as a result of it was “too attractive.”
“They’re like, ‘It’s so courageous. She’s so courageous,’” he mentioned of the strategy to intimate scenes in modern movies on his Literally! podcast. “She’s courageous as a result of she has a intercourse scene? Like, that’s courageous now. In our day, it was required.”
Lowe continued, “There was the web page 73 rule. Again within the day the intercourse scene was all the time on web page 73. You bought a script and have been like, ‘Am I going to be bare on this?’ And also you didn’t should learn the entire script. You simply went to web page 73 as a result of that center second act… what do you do? It’s the hardest sledding in storytelling so that they Blue Lagoon it. However now, it’s so courageous.”
The 9-1-1: Lone Star alum lamented that “no person has intercourse scenes in motion pictures anymore,” apart from A24’s Babygirl, which he mentioned was “nice.”
Babygirl writer-director Halina Reijn beforehand defined that the presence of intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot allowed them to attain “way more risky” intercourse scenes within the movie, which stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson.
“You will get extra excessive intercourse scenes that look far more dangerous than if you’re pondering ‘no, let the actresses discover out themselves,’” she instructed IndieWire. “That’s such a dated concept of what sexuality is and methods to strategy it. I actually am in opposition to it.”
