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Caught In The Act
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| Sometimes screen sex is for real. Only the actors know for sure, and
Angelina Jolie isn't telling. Ali Catterall looks back over the history
of cinematic sex including all those rumours about who actually did the
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Rumours were rife during 1974 that Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland had performed non-simulated sex in another Roeg film, Don't Look Now. If US censors considered the four-minute scene too explicit, and snipped accordingly, the BBFC judged it "tasteful and integral to the plot". As film critic Kim Newman, who likens watching genuine cinematic nookie to viewing "open-heart surgery", says "You almost never see married characters having sex in films - the emotional context makes it unusual, rather than the amount of buttock thrusts." However, according to Christie, "It was pretend sex, (but) it was tough on both Donald and myself. We did the scene at the beginning of the film and we were dreadfully embarrassed. After the film came out, my stepfather said to me, 'I hope you're not doing any writhing in your next one.'"
According to Original Sin director Michael Christopher, Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie "just took off and sort of did it".
Basic Instinct director Paul Verhoeven recalls Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone similarly reacting with shock to his storyboards. As he told 'Total DVD Online' in 2002, "They were like 'What the f*** is this?' But I explained it and they ended up going through the scenes like machines." Conversely, Kerry Fox remains refreshingly unfazed about her own performance (an on-screen blow-job for co-star Mark Rylance) in Patrice Chereau's Intimacy. As she told 'Inside Film', "We spent a lot of time getting it right - it was rehearsed like any other scene."
A quite different approach was taken by former screen-partners Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie, who according to Original Sin director Michael Christopher, "just took off and sort of did it". Said Jolie, who decided to forgo a modesty-preserving pubic patch as she felt too confined by it, "sometimes he'd just let us explore each other's hands or faces and he'd just let the cameras go." But according to the actress, then married to Billy Bob Thornton, the idea of genuine adultery never crossed her mind: "I think very little of people who do things like that."
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