Sarandon reckons porn movies don't show anything about the female perspective, and wants to re-dress the balance by getting behind the camera.
Susan Sarandon has revealed her surprising plans for what she plans to do with her career in the future – directing female-friendly porn movies. Yes, really.
According to a new interview in The Times, as reported by The Guardian, the 69 year old actress is considering a move into the adult film industry in order to make pornographic movies that embrace a female point of view.
Susan Sarandon at Cannes Film Festival 2016
Sarandon, who was in Cannes to mark the 25th anniversary of her iconic movie Thelma & Louise with co-star Geena Davies this week, argued that female directors would delve beneath the surface of what goes on in erotic movies and actually explore the emotional undercurrents of sex scenes – i.e., “what the scene is supposed to tell you about these people.”
“I have threatened, in my eighties, to direct porn,” she said. “I haven’t watched enough to know what the problems are. Most pornography is brutal and doesn’t look pleasurable from a female point of view. So I’ve been saying that when I no longer want to act, I want to do that.”
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While the 69 year old actress has not had any directorial experience, least of all with pornos, she said that she has improvised her own sex scenes when she’s appeared in them, giving the 1983 vampire movie The Hunger as an example.
“It was Tony Scott's first film and I intervened in the script,” she explained. “First of all it was written that I was drunk and I said, 'Seriously? You have to be drunk to get into bed with Catherine Deneuve? I don't think so. Isn't it more interesting if it is voluntary?'”
She said that a common problem with sex scenes in movies is that attention isn’t paid to what leads up to them.
“A lot of people know what's in the middle,” she explained. “But what makes a sex act really interesting is how that first touch happens, how that first kiss comes, so in The Hunger Tony allowed me to come up with an idea about the T-shirt and then the kiss. Those moments need to be looked at.”
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