Apparently, Joaquin Phoenix couldn’t deal with filming an intimate scene with Scarlett Johansson whereas engaged on the film Her — though they by no means touched!
The 47-year-old actor starred in Spike Jonze’s 2013 sci-fi romance as a person named Theodore who falls in love along with his artificially clever digital assistant Samantha, portrayed by Scarlett in an acclaimed voice efficiency. Although the 37-year-old actress doesn’t seem on the display screen, the 2 characters have a sexual relationship within the type of cellphone intercourse — which requires ScarJo to make faux orgasm sounds. Yes, actually. And in response to Scarlett, the method of making that steamy scene was something however attractive!
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During a convo on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast this week, the Black Widow star opened up about how she needed to document herself faking an orgasm for the film. Scarlett recalled that when she and the Joker star went to work on the scene collectively, he had develop into so uncomfortable by the second that he needed to stroll away in the course of the taping! She stated:
“Joaquin comes in, we try to get through one take, and he was like losing it. He was like, angry … He had already done it, he had done it in person, and now he was with me, in this weird theater, I’m in this box and he is staring at me, the lights are low, and like, Spike is there. It was so bizarre. He was so upset about it, he left the studio. … He needed a break.”
For her half, Scarlett says she understood why Joaquin may need been freaked out by the scene, including:
“You don’t want to hear your voice ever. You definitely don’t want to hear what you sound like having an orgasm. You definitely don’t want to hear what you sound like having a fake orgasm — ew. It’s so gross.”
We can think about that will need to have been a reasonably awk second on set! But it looks as if it paid off, because the movie received Spike an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and it was even nominated for Best Picture. ScarJo was positively within the dialog main as much as the awards for Best Supporting Actress, however vocal-only performances — even when using efficiency seize — are nonetheless thought of ineligible.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Scarlett touched on being hypersexualized in the course of the starting of her profession:
“I kind of became objectified and pigeonholed in this way where I felt like I wasn’t getting offers for work for things that I wanted to do. I remember thinking to myself, ‘I think people think I’m 40 years old.’ It somehow stopped being something that was desirable and something that I was fighting against.”
In reality, being objectified develop into such a norm that she believed her profession could be “over” immediately:
“I think everybody thought I was older and that I’d been [acting] for a long time, I got kind of pigeonholed into this weird hypersexualized thing. I felt like [my career] was over. It was like: that’s the kind of career you have, these are the roles you’ve played. And I was like, ‘This is it?’”
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