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Gen Z Might Be Prudes, But ‘Cruel Intentions’ TV Creators Refused to Shy Away From Love Scenes and Horniness: ‘Sex Is Alive and Well’
'Cruel Intentions' bosses Sara Goodman and Phoebe Fisher on adapting the story for Gen Z, the show's sex scenes and having to change the ending.
The 1999 film about high-society stepsiblings Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe) and Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) curing their privileged boredom by corrupting the last shreds of innocence in their peers feels both ahead of its time and like a movie that could never be made today. In the series, now streaming on Prime Video, viewers are once again introduced to a concerningly close pair of stepsiblings — sex-positive playboy Lucien (Zac Burgess) and control-hungry sorority president Caroline (Sarah Catherine Hook) — who rule the Greek life microcosm at Manchester University. Blaze (John Harlan Kim), inspired by a queer character originally played by Joshua Jackson, is now a leader in Lucien’s fraternity alongside their new president and his lover, Scott (Khobe Clarke).
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