The director of a Hollywood film featuring unsimulated sex confessed that the experience wasn’t “titillating” or “erotic” – but instead “clinical”.
Sean Baker made the decision to include real sex in his fourth film Starlet, released in 2012. The movie’s premise follows adult film star Jane, who accidentally comes by a huge fortune which leads her to become close friends with an elderly woman named Sadie.
Starring Dree Hemingway and Besedka Johnson, the film used porn doubles to complete the scenes involving real sex, while Hemingway was brought in afterwards to simulate the sex with her co-star Manuel Ferrara – an adult film star playing himself.
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Director Baker told Film at Lincoln Centre: “It was quite a unique experience because I shot the real sex in the morning and then Dree came in that afternoon and we showed her everything and I said: ‘We’re going to be recreating this, and you have to get into this position with Manuel.’
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“It was very calculated and edited. When I was actually shooting it in the morning, it was the opposite of titillating and erotic. It was quite fascinating because, in a way, I was a porn director for that morning. I was directing sex.
“It was very strange and extremely clinical. I was shooting it in a clinical way: ‘Hey guys, hold on, I know you’re in the midst of that, but let me run around over here with the camera and get this angle. Ok. Thank you.’”
He went on to add that the intimacy between Ferrara and Dree’s body double Zoe Foss seemed natural, and the stars began to “kiss and caress” one another to “keep the attraction level going” in between shots. Baker admitted that the stars “separated themselves” from the filming experience.
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He said: “I was probably a foot and a half from Zoe and I could tell from the way she was holding Manuel that we weren’t there to her. That’s how they become comfortable performing sex in front of cameras.”
Hemingway, meanwhile, was “nervous” to shoot the fake sex scenes as she didn’t want viewers to think she was actually having sex on camera. She told The Daily Beast: “I was really, really nervous about it because I know that people are going to think it’s me.
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“And I assume this is how some of the girls who are starting out feel. It’s a decision that you make, and it’s life-changing in a way, even if it’s not my body. I remember right after being like, ‘That was hilarious.’
“After being so worked up about it and so nervous about it, I imagine these girls walking out and being like, ‘I was really worked up about that?’ Because it’s a profession, and as odd as it sounds, it’s their version of getting up and going to the office.”
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