Reese Witherspoon Didn't Want to Film 'Fear' Sex Scene With Mark Wahlberg
Reese Witherspoon is peeling back the curtain on regrets over a past role.https://t.co/8EhYYexi6N
- Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) July 13, 2023
In a new interview, Witherspoon opened up about feeling uncomfortable while filming a sex scene in the 1996 thriller, 'Fear'. The scene in question featured Witherspoon and Wahlberg's characters, having sex while on a roller-coaster ride.
It showed her character having an orgasm. Witherspoon had requested a stunt double to be used for the intimate scenes.
"I didn't have control over it. It wasn't explicit in the script that's what was going to happen, so that was something that I think the director [James Foley] 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."
Witherspoon said she's not traumatized or anything by it, but it was formative.
"It made me understand where my place was in the pecking order of filmmaking. 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."
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