Reese Witherspoon forced into filming ‘explicit’ sex scene

“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,” Witherspoon instructed Harper’s Bazaar in a narrative printed this week.

The Legally Blonde actress — who famous she requested a stunt double for the scenes — added that it “wasn’t a particularly great experience.”

“I didn’t have control over it,” she added. “I’m certainly not traumatised or anything by it, but it was formative.”

The Oscar-winning actress was 19 years outdated when she starred alongside a then 25-year-old Wahlberg within the psychosexual thriller. The scene Witherspoon was referring to was when her character, Nicole, has an orgasm on a curler coaster.

Witherspoon, now 47, defined how the entire ordeal impressed her to create her personal movie manufacturing and media firm, Hello Sunshine.

“It made me understand where my place was in the pecking order of filmmaking,” she continued. “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.”

Witherspoon mirrored on that point of her life and admitted that she was “really unhappy.”

During the interview, the Big Little Lies star additionally mentioned her divorce from Jim Toth and defined how she had extra “control” after they introduced the news in joint statements in March.

“It feels much more authentic to be able to say things in my own voice and not let somebody else control what’s happening,” she mentioned.

Toth and Witherspoon had been married for 12 years and share son Tennessee. The actress additionally shares daughter Ava and son Deacon with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe.

This story initially appeared on Page Six and is republished right here with permission.