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Reese Witherspoon wasn’t comfortable doing that sex scene in the 1996 flick “Fear”.
The “Legally Blonde” actress — who was 19 at the time — starred alongside Mark Wahlberg in the thriller.
In the film, Witherspoon’s character Nicole, whose love interest is Wahlberg’s David, experiences an orgasm on a roller coaster.
A synopsis for the movie reads, “When Nicole met David; handsome, charming, affectionate, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into fear.”
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Witherspoon has now spoken out about the scene in question in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar’s August ’23 Performance Issue.
She insisted, “I didn’t have control over it,” sharing how she requested a stunt double for the below-the-waist scenes.
“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.”
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Witherspoon said as the reporter offered their sympathy for experiencing that at such a young age, “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. 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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Fear asked then to film a sex scene that hadn't been made explicit in the script, she said no. But she says the experience was formative for the rest of her career. In the movie, also starring Marc Wahlberg, Wahlberg's character uses his fingers to make Witherspoon's character orgasm while the two are on a rollercoaster—but Witherspoon said the details of that scene weren't known to her beforehand.“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.
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Reese Witherspoon is cringing at a past role early in her Hollywood career. Witherspoon, 47, reflected on an uncomfortable sex scene she had with Mark Wahlberg in the 1996 thriller "Fear," directed by James Foley, and said it was not a "great experience." "I didn’t have control over it," Witherspoon explained during a cover interview with Harper’s Bazaar. "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.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Reese Witherspoon said in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar that filming a sex scene at 19 years old for the 1996 thriller “Fear” was not “a particularly great experience.” Directed by James Foley, “Fear” stars Witherspoon as a teenager who falls for a sinister young man played by Mark Wahlberg. One of the film’s buzziest scenes centers on Witherspoon’s character having an orgasm on a rollercoaster while being pleasured by Mark Wahlberg’s character. “I didn’t have control over it,” Witherspoon said about filming the sex scene, adding that she requested a stunt double be used 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.”
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