Reese Witherspoon has reflected on her sex scene in Fear, explaining that it wasn’t a ‘great experience’.
The Legally Blonde icon starred as teenager Nicole in the 1996 thriller, opposite Mark Wahlberg, who played her creepy, controlling boyfriend, David.
The flick, directed by James Foley, marked one of the 47-year-old’s first films and saw her character break away from her family after falling for a mysterious older man before things took a violent turn.
In one scene, the pair enjoyed a date to a fairground where Nicole experienced an orgasm while on a rollercoaster – but the actress, who was 19 at the time, revealed that it was a tough time behind the camera.
‘I didn’t have control over it,’ she told Harper’s Bazaar, explaining that she requested a stunt double for the below-the-waist shots.
‘It wasn’t explicit in the script that that’s what was going to happen, so that was something that I think the director thought of on his own and then asked me on set if I would do it, and I said no. It wasn’t a particularly great experience.
‘I’m certainly not traumatized or anything by it, but it was formative.’
‘It made me understand where my place was in the pecking order of filmmaking,’ she added. ‘I think it’s another one of those stories that made me want to be an agent for change and someone who maybe can be in a better leadership position to tell stories from a female perspective instead of from the male gaze.’
Reese has gone on to lead her own production company, Hello Sunshine, putting the spotlight firmly on female-led stories.
She has worked on countless movie and TV projects, including Where The Crawdads Sing, Big Little Lies, Little Fires Everywhere, The Morning Show, Daisy Jones & the Six, and The Last Thing He Told Me.
Last year, the Hollywood favorite announced that she would be taking on a spin-off of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, making sure it’s ‘just right.’
Reese is set to partner with Build-A-Bear Entertainment to reimagine the fairy tale, which will serve as her company’s debut film as part of their new Kids and Animation division.
Hello Sunshine teased that the reimagined version of the story will focus on a ‘powerful female protagonist’ suggesting the story will follow Goldilocks as she progresses through the film.
A press release added: ‘This modern take on a classic will lean into the title character as a powerful female protagonist.’
Bring it on.
Source My Celebrity Life.