Topics: Hollywood, Netflix, Celebrity, Film and TV
Hollywood star Brittany Snow has explained an 'unspoken rule' that the entertainment industry applies to female actors taking part in sex scenes, after shooting her own NSFW sequence for a new Netflix show.
The 39-year-old Hairspray star laid into the different standards applied to women filming intimate scenes during a wide-ranging interview for the Las Culturistas podcast, where she detailed her raunchy moment with Malin Akerman on her hit thriller series The Hunting Wives.
This sex scene with the 47-year-old Watchmen star 'broke' all the usual Hollywood 'rules', with Snow claiming the show replaces the typical requirements for nudity and young actors with a new element - the female gaze.
She explained: "Hollywood wants to kind of disregard women after the age of 32 for sex scenes, specifically nudity and things that are sort of like women coming into their own sexual, like, prowess."
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The Pitch Perfect actor said Hunting Wives had broken this unfair rule and depicted female sexual agency developing as a woman matures.
"I think that this was just like, ‘No, we’re going to still have this be very prevalent in a woman’s life, even after she’s of a Hollywood age,'" Snow told the podcast.
In the new Netflix show, watched by five million people in its first week, Snow plays the character Sophie, who has just moved to small-town Texas from the big city.
There she meets the magnetic and mysterious socialite Margo, played by Akerman, with whom she quickly becomes romantically entangled.
But events rapidly descend into a confusing maelstrom of obsession and death after the body of a teenage girl is found in the woods.
Speaking to Las Culturistas' Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, Snow explained how they approached the intimate moment between two women over the 'Hollywood age'.
"I do think from the very beginning, there was a very clear understanding of what we were making in terms of the women that were on the show, what kind of women we were going to be — that were not 20 years old and were having these sex scenes," she told them.
"We’re in our late 30s, 40s, and we’re going to be powerful, and this is for the woman gaze, and we’re going to go for it.
"That was never a question. We were never shy about, ‘Oh, I wonder if this is going to be too much.’"
"We knew going into it, and we signed up for that," Snow added. "And I think that that’s something that we’re proud of."
In a separate interview, Snow relayed how Akerman had made her feel comfortable for the raunchy day of shooting, unlike many of her previous male co-stars.
"I’ve found a lot of men in sex scenes are really, really focused on themselves and how they look and if their abs are looking great and not necessarily thinking about your experience," she told SELF Magazine.
"And with Malin, it was so collaborative in terms of like, ‘Are you OK? Do you want me to do this? Is this OK if I put my hand here?’ Just so much care was taken, which felt really nice."
