Reese Witherspoon says she had ‘no control’ over film intercourse scene filmed aged 19
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eese Witherspoon has mirrored on the discomfort she felt capturing intercourse scenes for the 1996 psychological thriller Fear when she was simply 19.
The Oscar-winning actress, who’s now 48, starred reverse Mark Wahlberg, who was 23 on the time, within the James Foley directed flick.
One scene sees her character, Nicole, obtain sexual pleasure from Wahlberg’s character David whereas they’re driving a rollercoaster.
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar for its August cowl challenge, Witherspoon stated: “I didn’t have control over [the scene].”
Stipulating that she requested a stunt double for the below-the-waist scenes, she added: “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.”
Insisting that she was “certainly not traumatised or anything by it”, Witherspoon stated that she regarded the expertise “formative” for her.
“It made me understand where my place was in the pecking order of filmmaking,” she defined. “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.”
The Standard has contacted a consultant for Mark Wahlberg and James Foley for remark.