Zoe Lister-Jones: What It's Like to Direct Your Own Sex Scenes, Naked

Michael Douglas is attending the 2023 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, where he was awarded an honourary Palme d’Or at the opening ceremony.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer By modern standards, Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 sex noir “Basic Instinct” might not seem that scandalous. It was a much different story when the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, star Michael Douglas said. Considered genre-defining or high camp depending on who you ask, Douglas said the project was “unique, even for France,” during a conversation in Cannes on Wednesday. “Seeing a lot of those sex scenes on the Grand Palais’ huge screen, it was a little overwhelming for a lot of people. We had a very quiet dinner afterwards, everyone was sort of digesting it,” he remembered (the cast included Sharon Stone and Jeanne Tripplehorn).

Stars of “The Mother” have some parental advice for others.

Coronation Street beauty Tina O'Brien left her followers stunned as she shared a throwback snap of herself looking like sixties model Twiggy in a short blonde wig and brown crochet outfit. Tina, 39, who has played Sarah Barlow, nee Platt, since 1999, shared the stunning snap on her Instagram and captioned it: "Throwback to when it was all about the teeny bopper magazines, pre-online content."

Jameela Jamil and Penn Badgley share a discomfort with intimate scenes.

You due to her reluctance to act in sex scenes.The actor, best known for roles in The Good Place and She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, was planning to audition for a supporting role in the Netflix show’s fourth season.During an appearance on the Podcrushed podcast with You actor Penn Badgley and his co-hosts Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari, Jamil revealed she pulled out of the audition after her character was “supposed to be quite sexy”.“I don’t think I’ve ever been someone who would have enjoyed objectifying myself, personally,” Jamil said. “But that’s also because I have so much deep, like, childhood sexual trauma stuff. So I think that was never in the cards for me.

Jameela Jamil is looking back on her decision to pull out of auditioning for Netflix’s “You” because of the show’s racy scenes.

Rachel Bilson is continuing to be very honest about the intimate details of what goes on behind closed doors in her bedroom!

Ed Sheeran and his wife, Cherry Seaborn, are getting candid about her cancer diagnosis. In the Disney+ documentary,, the GRAMMY-winning singer breaks down the personal and intimate events in 2022 that inspired him to complete his album, . Throughout the limited docuseries, which is broken down into four parts,,, and, Sheeran and Seaborn open up about her cancer diagnosis and the effects it has had in their relationship. In episode one, Seaborn — who has remained largely out of the spotlight, details the diagnosis.

Addie Morfoot Contributor U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor took a few jabs during Monday’s Hot Docs world premiere of Barry Avrich’s “Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella.” The American Justice was in Toronto to celebrate Abella, who served on Canada’s Supreme Court from 2004 until her retirement in 2021. Avrich’s “Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella” is a portrait of Abella’s life and career. As the first Jewish woman, and refugee to sit on Canada’s top court bench, Abella was a fierce advocate for women’s rights, the disabled, and visible minorities.

Elizabeth Olsen opened up about her future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe during a recent interview.

Jodie Turner-Smith, is a big fan of seeing him have sex on-screen. And it looks like the British model-actress will get her fill when hubby’s latest project, the erotic thriller series “Fatal Attraction,” debuts April 30 on Paramount+.The show, based on the 1987 film starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas, follows an affair that threatens the lives of a cheating man (Jackson) and his wife (Amanda Peet). “Jodie is not fussed about my sex scenes.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Elizabeth Olsen calls herself an “unemployed” actor — even after playing Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and her latest role as Candy Montgomery in the HBO miniseries “Love & Death.” “I don’t want to work for work’s sake,” she tells Variety. “I don’t know how to half-ass stuff, so I have to love something a lot. And there are things I love, and it’s tough to raise money for them.” Olsen, 34, has multiple projects she wants to make with some unnamed first-time narrative directors but is finding it difficult to secure the financing that would allow them to have creative control. So, while she continues navigating Hollywood’s grounds during an unsteady economic time and a possible writer’s strike, she says she’s enjoying this break after working three years straight with Marvel (including two years of shooting and one year of promotion). “I don’t miss it,” she says.

Jodie Turner-Smith doesn’t feel an ounce of jealousy or awkwardness when it comes to her husband Joshua Jackson’s sex scenes with other women. In fact, she’s a big fan of watching them!

Joshua Jackson said this week that his wife Jodie Turner-Smith "enjoys" watching his on-screen sex scenes.  "Jodie is not fussed about my sex scenes," the "Fatal Attraction" star told Variety while discussing his more intimate shoots for the remake of the 1987 Michael Douglas classic in a piece published Wednesday.  "The sex scenes themselves, Jodie kind of enjoys them, actually," he joked. "It’s a weird thing where she’s like a voyeur.

Watching one’s spouse act out a steamy sex scene onscreen can understandably be awkward — but not for Joshua Jackson and wife Jodie Turner-Smith.

Keke Palmer is sharing her advice for her fellow new moms.

She doesn’t wanna wait … for the sex scenes to be over! Joshua Jackson revealed that his wife, Jodie Turner-Smith, is all about his NSFW roles.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points for “Beau Is Afraid,” currently playing in theaters. In the final act of Ari Aster’s three-hour anxiety trip “Beau Is Afraid,” Beau, played by Joaquin Phoenix, arrives very late for his mother’s funeral and finds himself reunited with his childhood love Elaine, played by Parker Posey. It’s an awkward reunion for the two, but the two wind up in bed together. Just as they are about to have sex, Elaine pulls out her phone and the intro to Mariah Carey’s 1995 hit “Always Be My Baby” begins to play. Speaking over Zoom, the film’s music supervisor Jemma Burns said Aster told her during their first meeting, “’If there’s one thing you do for me on this film, I have to have this Mariah Carey song.’”