Rob Lowe on intimate scenes in right this moment’s Hollywood
Rob Lowe mirrored on the distinction between having romantic scenes within the motion pictures now versus the flicks made in his time.
The Hollywood star and Intercourse and the Metropolis alum Kristin Davis lately took a visit down reminiscence lane on Lowe’s Actually! podcast, reminiscing concerning the hardcore intimate scenes that after outlined Hollywood movies.
However in response to Lowe, these sultry cinematic moments have gotten a rarity.
“Nobody has s*x scenes in movies anymore,” Lowe declared—earlier than instantly correcting himself. “Well, A24’s Babygirl just opened, and it was great.”
The Halina Reijn-directed movie, starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, has been making waves for its unapologetically steamy romance.
Kidman performs a high-powered CEO whose life is thrown into turmoil after an affair along with her younger intern. Her efficiency even earned her the Greatest Actress award on the Venice Movie Competition.
However Lowe discovered the viewers’s response to the movie fascinating.
“They’re like, ‘It’s so brave. She’s so brave,’” he famous. “She’s brave because she has a s*x scene? Like, that’s brave now. In our day, it was required.”
Lowe then spilled some previous Hollywood secrets and techniques, revealing what he known as the “Page 73 rule.”
“Back in the day, the s*x scene was always on page 73,” he recalled.
“You got a script and were like, ‘Am I going to be naked in this?’ And you didn’t have to read the whole script. You just went to page 73 because that middle second act… what do you do? It’s the toughest sledding in storytelling, so they Blue Lagoon it. But now it’s so brave.”
Trying on the broader shift in Hollywood’s norms, Lowe sees alternative within the business’s evolution.
“I always feel, like, out of chaos comes opportunity,” he defined.
“My attitude is always you make the most of it [and] disruption is actually a great time to build new things. If you can be one of the nimble ones and you could be one of the forward-thinking ones … not entrenched and not trying to recreate yesterday but try to imagine tomorrow, it’s your time.”
With s*x scenes now a rarity and “bravery” being redefined, it appears Hollywood is in a complete new period—one the place the actual plot twist may simply be the absence of steam.