Sex Scene In Fatal Attraction

Sex Scene In Fatal Attraction
Published on April 23, 2020 02:53 PM

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Few directors have steamed up screens quite like Adrian Lyne.

For over four decades in Hollywood, the British filmmaker, 79, has provoked audiences with racy films like Indecent Proposal , Unfaithful , Flashdance and 9 ½ Weeks . He’s back at it with his first film in nearly 20 years, Deep Water , which stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas as a couple in an open marriage harboring dark secrets.

Among his most celebrated films is Fatal Attraction , the hit thriller starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close that shocked millions when it came out in 1987 and earned six Oscar nominations, including one for Lyne. With the film made newly available for purchase on Blu-ray as part of the Paramount Presents collection , Lyne spoke with PEOPLE about the its enduring popularity.

Well I live in France quite a lot, in the South of France in Provence. And I started reading it sitting on the stairs, I remember. My wife was in bed and I started reading it and it was just a terrific page turner. And I went and I woke her up.

I went into the bedroom and I remember saying, “I I don’t screw this up, this is a terrific movie.” I really felt that it was a movie that the people would be interested to go and see and talk about. Because I’ve always liked films that sort of create discussion. And I kind of felt that this would.

Well, it’s a marvelous novel. It’s a Patricia Highsmith novel and she’s just such a terrific writer. And it’s a strange and it’s a bizarre story. I was sort of fascinated by it and hopefully the public will be as well.

I mean, I think they’re kind of maybe tired of conventional stuff, and this is by no means conventional.

I’ve always liked relationship pieces. I’ve always liked the small picture really, rather than the big one. And obviously sexuality is part of that.

I sort of I can admire other movies like Matrix or something like that, but I just wouldn’t want to make that sort of a movie necessarily. I wouldn’t want to make Batman . Although I can admire it when somebody else does it.

I’m not sure. I’m not sure you’d be able to get the studio to make it. I think they might be wary of it. Certainly they wouldn’t make it for the budget that I was lucky enough to get for it, which wasn’t enormous. But I think the only way probably to make that movie would be as an independent movie now.

Well, I was sort of wary of her doing it. I’d seen The World According to Garp and movies like that and the Larry Kasdan movie, what was it called, that’s a good one, where she always played the sweetheart. [Lyne is referring to The Big Chill ] She never really had an edge.

But when I saw her working with Michael, it was a revelation really. Just their chemistry. And so I had a good feeling that it was going to work. And she wanted to do it very much. She’s very anxious to do it and everybody was, as I say, a little bit cynical about whether she was right for it.

But then when she came in and read. And actresses don’t like to read for things. And it’s stupid really because that’s the only way that you can. Otherwise you’re picking a name out out of a phone book. You’re guessing.

And so, it was much less of a guess when I saw her working with Michael and had time to work with him.

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I’ve always sort of been a little bit like a cheerleader. It’s always been a very small crew, so it was just me and the operator and the cameraman and that’s it.

But I’ve always thought that it must be very tough being an actor, having to sort of go through that in total silence and really not knowing whether they look good. They want to know that their a– looks good because they are very sort of in a state of insecurity really. I try and help them through it. If I see something that I really like I’ll say, “Do it. That’s great, do it again, do it again. That’s marvelous.”

And then you feel, you sense them growing in confidence. So that’s sort of the way I work at it. It seems to work. As I say, I’m frightened of them going at it in total silence which must be awful really for them. Not knowing whether they’re being good or not.

Then in those days they could have a couple of drinks. Now you can’t. I mean I remember with Michael and Glenn, they had a glass of champagne or two. That always was helpful. Then it was more like a policy. But you can’t do that now. That’s a thing of the past.

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"Fatal Attraction" is more than three decades old now, but it's still known for its sex scenes. That kitchen sink one still comes up, even all these years later.
Michael Douglas , who starred in the film opposite Glenn Close , recently discussed some of his greatest films in a Variety interview , and he mentioned the well-known scene. He pointed out that it could easily have become "tawdry," if not for something important: humor.
"Right at the moment it gets uncomfortable for the audience, you need to have that comic relief," Douglas told Variety. "In 'Fatal Attraction' we had the kitchen sink sex scene, and my pants dropped down to my ankles and I waddled to get her into bed. And it lets the audience laugh. You need it."
Douglas definitely knows a thing or two about how to make a scene work onscreen. The actor has been appearing in films since the 1960s and won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1988 for his role in "Wall Street." He, like the sex scenes in "Fatal Attraction," has had staying power.
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Fatal Attraction (2/8) Movie CLIP - A Married Man (1987) HD

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Dan (Michael Douglas) has dinner with Alex (Glenn Close) and she asks him what he's doing with her if he is married.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
"Fatal attraction" has become a household term for love turned to murderous obsession, thanks to the success of Adrian Lyne's 1987 movie. Dan (Michael Douglas) is a family man whose one-night affair with Alex (Glenn Close) turns into a nightmare when she insists on continuing the relationship, claiming to be carrying his baby. Alex systematically terrorizes Dan, even temporarily kidnapping his daughter, in her attempts to win back his affection. Douglas' besieged family man guiltily tries to preserve his marriage and family from the consequences of his own indiscretion. Close's performance as the love-struck psycho-siren remains her signature role: She conveys the buried feminist message of the film in her challenge to Dan to take responsibility for his sexual behavior. Though many critics acknowlegded the film's striking similarities to Clint Eastwood's 1971 film Play Misty for Me, Fatal Attraction spawned numerous other movies about middle-class families besieged by a lone psychotic intent on infiltrating and destroying the fabric of the family unit, including The Stepfather (1987), Pacific Heights (1990), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), and Fear (1996).

CREDITS:
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Cast: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close
Director: Adrian Lyne
Producers: Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
Screenwriter: James Dearden

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Fatal Attraction (2/8) Movie CLIP - A Married Man (1987) HD

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Dan (Michael Douglas) has dinner with Alex (Glenn Close) and she asks him what he's doing with her if he is married.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
"Fatal attraction" has become a household term for love turned to murderous obsession, thanks to the success of Adrian Lyne's 1987 movie. Dan (Michael Douglas) is a family man whose one-night affair with Alex (Glenn Close) turns into a nightmare when she insists on continuing the relationship, claiming to be carrying his baby. Alex systematically terrorizes Dan, even temporarily kidnapping his daughter, in her attempts to win back his affection. Douglas' besieged family man guiltily tries to preserve his marriage and family from the consequences of his own indiscretion. Close's performance as the love-struck psycho-siren remains her signature role: She conveys the buried feminist message of the film in her challenge to Dan to take responsibility for his sexual behavior. Though many critics acknowlegded the film's striking similarities to Clint Eastwood's 1971 film Play Misty for Me, Fatal Attraction spawned numerous other movies about middle-class families besieged by a lone psychotic intent on infiltrating and destroying the fabric of the family unit, including The Stepfather (1987), Pacific Heights (1990), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), and Fear (1996).

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TM & © Paramount (1987)
Cast: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close
Director: Adrian Lyne
Producers: Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
Screenwriter: James Dearden

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It really says something when the most unstable character in this movie made the most sense by asking the most important question of the movie. If he's such a happily married man and father what is he doing with her.

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