Apparently, Tallulah Willis wasn’t prepared to see her mother, Demi Moore, get intimate with a man, almost 40 years after the fact.
In a recent interview in Last Night with Seth MeyersThe veteran Hollywood leading lady opened up about her family as she revealed how her youngest daughter had to turn off the 80s romantic comedy About Last Night.
It turns out she just couldn’t stand her mom getting intimate with none other than Rob Lowe in a sex scene even though it was all faked for the cameras.
“I’d been traveling a lot with the movie and she said, ‘I missed you so much, so I put on About Last Night.'” Moore he said, referring to his new film, The Substance, which he is currently promoting.
“And then I didn’t realize there were sex scenes, so I had to turn it off,” Moore said while speaking on behalf of Tallulah, before chiming in herself: “She didn’t even mention sex. She just said, ‘I didn’t realize they had those scenes.'”
In a recent interview on Late Night With Seth Meyers, Demi Moore revealed that her daughter Tallulah Willis had to turn off her romantic comedy film About Last Night (1986) when she realized her mother had sex scenes with Rob Lowe.
Moore said of her daughter: “She didn’t even mention sex. She just said, ‘I didn’t realize they had those scenes,'” the former Brat Pack star explained; Tallulah Willis is seen in March
Moore and Lowe starred in the Edward Zwick-directed romantic comedy with Jim Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins and Tim Kazurinsky.
He worked from a screenplay written by Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue, which was based on David Mamet’s book Sexual Perversity In Chicago.
The story follows Moore as Debbie Sullivan and Lowe’s Danny Martin as they meet and begin to navigate their first serious sexual relationship, which ultimately comes with plenty of drama and confusion, along with passionate sex scenes.
That drama also extended to the real-life actors when Lowe let out a loud moan while filming a love scene with Moore, which resulted in a scream of pain due to a torn knee ligament.
“Everything went surprisingly well, until one particularly passionate (and athletic) moment when Rob started moaning quite loudly as they pretended to make love,” Zwick, now 71, wrote in his memoir, Hits, Flops, And Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years In Hollywood, as previously reported. Daily Mail.
‘Everyone looked away, embarrassed, trying to act like nothing was happening until we realized Rob had torn his ACL. Rob, being the professional he is, kept acting until I said, “Cut.” The show, as they say, had to go on.’
The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a ligament located inside the knee joint that is most often torn during activities that involve sudden movements or changes in direction.
Although the director didn’t know it at the time, he was dealing with a potential emotional disaster, considering the past histories of his male and female leads.
Moore revealed how her daughter put the film on at a time when she was traveling a lot and missing her mother.
The film’s director, Edward Zwick, now 71, shared how Lowe screamed a moan during one particular sex scene, where crew members had to turn around, but it turns out Lowe had torn his ACL during filming; Zwick is portrayed in the 1980s.
“Demi was very emotionally available and the camera loved her,” Zwick writes. “Both actors were open and willing, especially given the nudity the scenes required.”
Referring to an affair between the actors, the director of The Last Samurai admitted: “It wasn’t until after I had cast them that I found out that Rob and Demi had been together years before.
‘To make matters even more complicated, Demi was the girlfriend of Rob’s oldest friend, Emilio Estevez. Even though everyone knew that these scenes were more technical than sexual, they were still a little anxious.’
The film ended up being a financial success, grossing $38.7 million at the worldwide box office against a budget of just $8.5 million.
Although the director didn’t know it at the time, he was dealing with a potential emotional disaster, given the past history of Moore and Lowe, who had gotten together years earlier.
About Last Night became a minor but still successful hit, grossing $38.7 million at the worldwide box office against a budget of just $8.5 million.
About Last Night aired and premiered during Moore’s so-called Brat Pack phase, when she was grouped with a handful of other young actors in their twenties in the 1980s who appear in films like The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo’s Fire, to accompany About Last Night.
In addition to Tallulah, Moore shares two other daughters: Rumer, 36, and Scout, 33, with ex-husband Bruce Willis, 69.
Willis and Moore met at a screening of the police action comedy film Stakeout (1987) and ended up marrying that same year.
They eventually divorced in 2000, but remained close over the years, in part, to co-parent their daughters.
