Gregg Araki Made His Reputation Directing Sex in the Age Before Intimacy Coordinators — Did Using One Change His Process?

How George Michael & Madonna inspired Gregg Araki’s raunchy comedy I Want Your Sex

Im age Credits: George Michael via Getty Images (left) | Gregg Araki on the set of ‘I Want Your Sex,’ Magnolia Pictures (center) | Madonna via Getty Images (right) For his first feature film in 12 years, New Queer Cinema auteur Gregg Araki made a kinky comedy about a provocative artist (Olivia Wilde) & her submissive muse (Cooper Hoffman) called I Want Your Sex. And if that title sounds familiar, that’s because it shares a name with 1987 George …

Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman Used Pain Scale Ratings to Prep BDSM Scenes in ‘I Want Your Sex’: She ‘Hit Him Really Hard and’ It Was ‘Only a Seven or Eight’

Cooper Hoffman had never filmed a sex scene before signing on to Gregg Araki’s erotic thriller “I Want Your Sex.” So when he arrived on set for the first time and found himself surrounded by ball gags, stilettos, whips, chains, dildos and strap-ons, a few first-day jitters were understandable. “Even if you’re nervous to do […]

Cooper Hoffman says Olivia Wilde was ‘much more comfortable’ with nudity in “I Want Your Sex ”than he was

“I would immediately put a robe on and sit by myself on the corner of a couch,” he tells EW.Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman in ‘I Want Your Sex’Credit: Magnolia PicturesKey PointsCooper Hoffman says his I Want Your Sex costar Olivia Wilde was a lot more comfortable than he was with the film’s many sex scenes. The Licorice Pizza actor stars in the film as Wilde’s submissive sexual muse. Hoffman says he and Wilde filmed sex scenes on the very firs…

Gregg Araki: 'I Want Your Sex' Is About the Sex Gen Z Isn't Having

This story originally appeared on Out.Gregg Araki found the spark for I Want Your Sex in an unlikely place: a statistic about Gen Z's dwindling sex lives.Directed and co-written by Araki, along with co-writer Karley Sciortino, the erotic comedy centers on the sexual relationship between renowned provocative artist Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde) and naive new intern Elliot (Cooper Hoffman). During one of the later passes on the script, Araki read tha…

Gregg Araki Made His Reputation Directing Sex in the Age Before Intimacy Coordinators — Did Using One Change His Process?

The director of 'The Doom Generation' and 'Nowhere' used a coordinator for the first time on 'I Want Your Sex' with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman.