This Friday, the intriguing adult-only film “Don’t Worry Darling” will arrive on the big screens of our country – in it, O. Wilde plays the role of an extravagant artist fulfilling sexual fantasies.
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Before the premiere of the famous director Gregg Araki’s film, the creators revealed how the sex scenes full of BDSM elements were filmed. It turns out that many tricks invisible to the audience were used for this…
It is said that a “laboratory” environment was created on the set. Instead of relying solely on intuition, every movement – from domination to nudity – was discussed with an intimacy coordinator. However, it was the unusual system created by the actors themselves that became the main tool of mutual trust.
“Cooper (actor Cooper Hoffman) and I had a very open conversation before filming began. We used a scale from 1 to 10 to determine the comfort level for each minute of physical contact, each somewhat intimate scene in the film. If I said, ‘Okay, now I’m going to slap you,’ we agreed on what number that was on the scale. This allowed us to be completely free in front of the camera because we knew exactly where the other person’s limit was,” O. Wilde reveals.
“Since these were my first sex scenes in my acting career, I was very tense. Olivia was the person who brought calm. The pain scale method and the constant question ‘is everything okay?’ turned what could have been a traumatic experience into just a technical, trust-based job,” said C. Hoffman.
O. Wilde emphasized that the BDSM scenes shown on screen require greater technical precision than, for example, a simple kiss: “Paradoxically, the more rules and boundaries we set, the more relaxed and wild we could feel on set.”
Paradoxically, the more rules and boundaries we set, the more relaxed and wild we could feel on set.
In the drama full of erotic scenes “Don’t Worry Darling,” full power is given into the hands of a woman. Erika Tracy, played by O. Wilde, completely controls the situation not only in the script but also on the set. Yes, according to director Gregg Araki, this ensured that her younger colleague felt safe at every step.
“This allows us to form a strong message about a modern, ethical approach to provocative filmmaking, where ‘scandal’ on screen is achieved through maximum safety behind the scenes. That was our main goal – to create a kind of ‘safety protocol’ that would allow both actors and the rest of the staff to feel comfortable,” reveals the director, who is considered a pioneer of the “New Queer Cinema” genre.
“Don’t Worry Darling” tells the story of Eliot (actor C. Hoffman), a kind-hearted but unmotivated twenty-year-old whose wild sexual fantasies quickly come true when he gets a job with a famous artist and, to put it mildly, provocateur Erika Tracy (actor O. Wilde).
When Erika breaks office boundaries and turns Eliot into her sexual muse, their erotically charged relationship makes him question his own desires, boundaries, and relationships with a tense girl (played in the film by the famous Charli XCX) and a somewhat depressed roommate (actor Chase Sui Wonders).
As the stakes rise and power dynamics shift, the film combines jokes, romantic yet comedic incidents, secrets upon secrets, and even murder through the colorful and sharp visual language for which Araki is best known.
The unusually colorful and open film “Don’t Worry Darling,” awaited by everyone, especially representatives of Generation Z, will begin showing in cinemas this Friday, August 28.
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