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Steven Soderbergh Says Sex Scenes Are As 'Ridiculous' and 'Impossible' as Shooting Underwater


Ocean's Eleven director Steven Soderbergh has a bone to pick with sex scenes. Specifically, that they're "ridiculous" and "impossible"

At a roundtable discussion at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (via The Hollywood Reporter), the director was asked about how his upcoming spy thriller Black Bag is being called a love story, and also about how his 1998 film Out of Sight had notably good chemistry between stars George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney in Out of Sight, Universal Pictures “I was having this conversation the other day about a project I’m working on. It’s, to my mind, all the more reason to figure out a way to portray this sort of emotional and psychological aspect of a sexual relationship, as opposed to showing the technical part.

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