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Joaquin comes in, we tried to get through one take, and he was, like, losing it. It’s so gross, right? I remember we came in that day, I become that actor that’s like, ‘Let’s get dirty.’ I have to, otherwise I’ll be petrified. You definitely don’t want to hear what you sound like having a fake orgasm.

You don’t want to hear your voice ever, obviously,” she said. “You definitely don’t want to hear what you sound like having an orgasm. However, the situation was apparently so uncomfortable that Phoenix became upset. The actress recalled going into the studio, along with Phoenix and director Spike Jonze, to record fake orgasms for the aforementioned sex scene.

Phoenix was cast as the lead character Theodore Twombly, a Los Angeles introvert who falls in love with his A.I.

The Oscar-nominated actress shared the story during a recent appearance on the Armchair Expert podcast hosted by Dax Shepard. Scarlett Johansson says the simulated sex scene in 2013’s Her was “bizarre” and “gross,” so much so that her co-star Joaquin Phoenix felt compelled to flee the set. This article was published as part of IndieWire’s Seven Days of Scream Queens. It should go without saying, but proceed with caution: the following titles run through a wide range of sensitive subjects with varying degrees of consideration for audience comfort. Ducournau’s films apply a frenetic energy to fear that exquisitely explores sexualized and gendered trauma, while triumphantly pushing feminine characters toward the raging, lustful limits too often reserved for the masculine and villainous.Īlice Lowe, Marina de Van, and Mimi Cave, as well as Jen and Sylvia Soska and more, join Ducournau in this collection of 19 thought-provoking body horror films for and about women. Though a sizable number of entries in this niche category of nightmares are helmed by men (David Cronenberg, his son Brandon Cronenberg, Darren Aronofsky, and Alex Garland make their predictable appearances on the list to come), “Raw” and “Titane” writer-director Julia Ducournau is the category’s reigning scream queen, having won the Palme d’Or for the latter at 2021’s Cannes Film Festival. From puberty, sex, assault, and rape to conception, abortion, birth, and motherhood, literal arenas of femininity and womanhood can be used as narrative vaults to consider abstract concepts of cyclical oppression, exploitation, and bias that many women and gender nonconforming people face. What sets them apart is not who wins and who dies, who suffers and who laughs, who has a penis and who doesn’t, but the emotional and sociopolitical motivations behind the filmmakers’ decision to shock - and even brutalize - their audiences with violent story pieces applied to specific characters.

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