A new study shows that Hollywood stars’ graphic sex scenes are not doing well with younger audiences.
Explicit content has ruled streaming content lately, with Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller Babygirl – in which she plays a CEO who has an affair with an intern (Harris Dickinson) – silenced for its explicit sex scenes.
Tell Me Lies – called America’s Normal People and starring Grace Van Patten and Stephen DeMarco – is also filled with racy moments that left viewers warm under the collar.
While the erotic psychological thriller Fair Play starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich shocked fans when it opened with a steamy oral sex scene while the main character was menstruating.
This is evident from a new study by UCLA – Los Angeles’ Center for Scholars & Storytellers. per Variety has found that younger audiences are hoping for a Hollywood shift towards characters in platonic relationships – with less emphasis on explicit sexual content.
Hollywood stars’ graphic sex scenes aren’t going down well with younger audiences, a new study shows – Nicole Kidman and Harrison Dickinson pictured in steamy scene from Babygirl
The Teens & Screens report surveyed approximately 1,500 respondents ages 10 to 24 and found that 63.5% of adolescents said they preferred “big and small screen stories to focus on friendships.” While 62.4% of participants said that ‘sexual content is not necessary as a plot device’.
Last year, 51.5% of participants said they wanted more content about people in platonic relationships, and 47.5% said they were “not looking for shows or movies where sex was a major plot point.”
Young people aged between 10 and 13 were asked about their attitudes towards sexually explicit content.
Alisha J. Hines, research director at the center, said: ‘Our findings really seemed to reinforce a trend we saw emerging in our data last year: that young people are tired of seeing the same dated and unreliable romantic tropes on screen. to see.
“Teens and young adults want to see stories that more authentically reflect a full spectrum of nuanced relationships.”
Now, 36.2% of participants say they enjoy content set in fantasy worlds, while 7.2% prefer storylines that focus on the rich and famous.
Meanwhile, 13.9% enjoyed real-life issues and 24.2% preferred content about personal issues.
Among teens, 39.2% said their favorite entertainment was video games, while 33.3% opted for watching TV or movies and 27.5% for scrolling social media platforms.
Tell Me Lies – called America’s Normal People and starring Grace Van Patten and Stephen DeMarco – is also filled with racy moments that left viewers warm under the collar
While the erotic psychological thriller Fair Play starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich shocked fans when it opened with a steamy oral sex scene while the lead character was menstruating
This comes after Dickinson revealed what it was like filming steamy sex scenes for Babygirl.
The 28-year-old Iron Claw actor stars opposite the Big Little Lies star, 57, in the erotic film – directed by Halina Reijn – in which they embark on an affair.
Harris shared that he and Nicole worked with an intimacy coordinator, and admitted that one of his unrehearsed sexy scenes was “embarrassing” to film, in a new interview with Variety.
“We had a conversation with the intimacy coordinator and then Nicole and I kind of did our own thing with it, once we established the parameters of what we were both comfortable with,” he said.
‘The intimacy coordinator says: ‘What do you feel comfortable with, what do you want as a director, what can you do based on that vision?’ They facilitate that and do it very subtly without interrupting the actual scene.
Harris noted that a scene in which he was virtually naked and danced in a hotel room to a George Michael song without any prior rehearsal proved “embarrassing” to film.
“That was just me moving. Halina started the song and said, “Dance.” So I just had a little groove. Maybe I’ve already had a little whiskey. But it was embarrassing.”
Nicole said performing the scenes with Harrison and Antonio Banderas, as her husband Jacob, was often too much to handle
Kidman has admitted that she was so excited about her Babygirl role that at one point she had to pause filming
He also praised Nicole as “the most reassuring, warm artist to work opposite.”
“She sets the tone on set, and she makes it so easy to be vulnerable and funny because she’s so daring. She’s so brave and she does things, and you’re like, “What the fuck is that?” You can’t even think about it.’
It comes after Nicole admitted she was so excited while shooting the movie that at one point she had to pause filming.
In the film, Nicole plays a powerful, married corporate boss who falls in love with a kinky young intern.
And according to The sunIn a revealing new interview, Nicole said performing the scenes with Harrison and Antonio Banderas, 64, as her husband, Jacob, was often too much to handle.
Nicole started by saying, “There was a tremendous amount of sharing, trust and then frustration. It’s like, ‘Don’t touch me.’
‘There were times when we were filming and I thought, “I don’t want to have an orgasm anymore.”
‘Don’t come near me. I hate doing this. I don’t care if I never get touched again in my life! I’m over it. For me it was so present all the time that it almost seemed like a burnout.’