Rob Lowe does not get why Nicole Kidman’s “Babygirl” intercourse scenes had been referred to as ‘courageous’: ‘In our day, it was required’

Rob Lowe desires extra intercourse in motion pictures — and doesn't need it to be a giant deal.

The 9-1-1: Lone Star actor lamented the sexlessness of recent cinema throughout a current dialog with Kristin Davis on his podcast, Literally! With Rob Lowe. "No person has intercourse scenes in motion pictures anymore," he mentioned.

However when Davis talked about Nicole Kidman's 2024 erotic drama, Babygirl, for instance of a brand new movie that does, Lowe reconsidered his remarks.

"Ohhh… I've seen it. I take it again," he mentioned. "It's fairly nice. It's fairly scorching. Babygirl's nice."

Davis famous that whereas she hasn't seen the movie, she's completely satisfied it was made, earlier than expressing her disappointment that erotic movies are so out of trend nowadays. "I can't wait [to see Babygirl], nevertheless it's so uncommon that we even discuss it," the Sex and the City star mentioned. "We're like, 'Oh, thank God, somebody made a horny film' — prefer it's an uncommon factor now."

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Lowe admitted that he's puzzled by the movie's reception. "They're like, 'Oh, it's so courageous. She's so courageous,'" he mentioned sarcastically. "She's courageous as a result of she has a intercourse scene. That's courageous now. And in our day, it was required. There's the web page 73 rule. Are you aware what the web page 73 rule is?"

Lowe defined the idea to his visitor. "Within the day, the intercourse scene was all the time on web page 73," he mentioned. "You get a script and also you're like, 'Oh my God, how gratuitous. Do I’ve to be bare on this? Let me verify.' And also you didn't must learn the entire script. You simply went to web page 73."

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The West Wing star mentioned Hollywood usually struggled with a standard story construction across the web page 73 mark, so writers would throw in a steamy scene to clean over the narrative tough patch.

"That mid–second act — what do you do within the second act?" he requested. "Which is notoriously the hardest sledding in storytelling: mid–second act. 'I do know. They Blue Lagoon it. Seaside beneath a moonlit evening.'"

He continued, "However now it's courageous. So courageous."

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Nonetheless, Lowe added that Hollywood studios appeared uncomfortable with an excessive amount of intercourse on display within the '80s, too. "Kim Cattrall and I did a film referred to as Masquerade collectively, which, I like that film," he mentioned. "It received good critiques, however the studio form of dumped it as a result of they thought it was too horny. It was fairly gratuitous, nevertheless it was nice."

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Nonetheless, Lowe has admitted prior to now that intercourse scenes aren't nice experiences on set. He recalled the laborious monotony of filming erotic sequences with Demi Moore in 1986's About Final Night time in a 2021 interview with Yahoo. "They're not enjoyable," he advised the outlet. "They're not a corridor cross, as a lot as you prefer to it to be. They're very technical, and often very boring."

"I don't know should you've needed to kiss anyone for eight hours straight," he continued. "It's not enjoyable! It's not all you discount for."

Take heed to the total dialog between Lowe and Davis above.

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