Hollywood stars’ graphic sex scenes are backfiring with younger audiences, according to a new study.
Explicit content has dominated 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), which leaves jaws dropping due to its graphic sex scenes.
Tell Me Lies, dubbed America’s Normal People and starring Grace Van Patten and Stephen DeMarco, is also full of spicy moments that left viewers hot.
While the erotic psychological thriller Fair Play, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich, surprised fans when it opened with a steamy oral sex scene while its main character was menstruating.
However, a new study from UCLA, the Center for Scholars and Storytellers in Los Angeles. by Variety has found that younger audiences expect a shift from Hollywood toward characters in platonic relationships, with less emphasis on explicit sexual content.
The graphic sex scenes of Hollywood stars do not convince younger audiences, according to a new study: in the photo Nicole Kidman and Harrison Dickinson in a passionate scene from Babygirl
The Teens & Screens report surveyed about 1,500 respondents, ages 10 to 24, and found that 63.5% of teens said they preferred “big and small screen stories to focus on friendships.” While 62.4% of the participants said that “sexual content is not necessary as a plot device.”
The year before, 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.”
People ages 10 to 13 were surveyed about their attitudes toward explicit sexual content.
Alisha J. Hines, research director at the center, said: “Our findings really seemed to solidify a trend we found emerging in our data last year: that young people are tired of seeing the same old-fashioned romantic tropes on screen and that you can’t relate to.”
“Teens and young adults want to see stories that more authentically reflect a full spectrum of nuanced relationships.”
Now 36.2% of participants said they enjoyed content in fantasy worlds, while 7.2% preferred stories focused on the rich and famous.
Meanwhile, 13.9% enjoyed real-life topics and 24.2% preferred personal topic content.
Among teens, 39.2% said their favorite entertainment was video games, while 33.3% chose to watch TV or movies and 27.5% chose to scroll through social media platforms.
Tell Me Lies, dubbed America’s Normal People and starring Grace Van Patten and Stephen DeMarco, is also full of spicy moments that left viewers hot.
While the erotic psychological thriller Fair Play, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich, surprised fans when it opened with a steamy oral sex scene while its main character was menstruating.
This comes after Dickinson revealed what it was like filming steamy sex scenes for Babygirl.
The Iron Claw actor, 28, stars alongside the Big Little Lies star, 57, in the erotic film, directed by Halina Reijn, in which the two have an affair.
Harris shared that he and Nicole worked with an intimacy coordinator and admitted that one of their unrehearsed sexy scenes was “embarrassing” to film, in a new interview with Variety.
“We would have a conversation with the intimacy coordinator and then Nicole and I would do our thing once we established the parameters that we were both comfortable with,” he said.
‘The intimacy coordinator says, “What are you comfortable with, what do you want as a director, what are you comfortable doing from that vision?” “They are facilitating it and doing it very delicately without interrupting the real scene.”
Harris noted that a scene in which he was practically naked and dancing in a hotel room to a George Michael song without any prior rehearsal turned out to be “embarrassing” to film.
‘That was just me moving. Halina played the song and said, “Just dance.” So I had a little rhythm. Maybe I had some whiskey before. But it was embarrassing.
Nicole said that playing scenes with Harrison and Antonio Banderas, as her husband, Jacob, was often too much to deal with.
Kidman admitted that she was so “excited” by her role as Babygirl that at one point she had to pause filming.
He also praised Nicole for being “the most comforting and warm performer to work with.”
“She sets the tone on set and makes it very easy to be vulnerable and fun, because she’s so sassy. 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 during the filming of the film that at one point she had to pause filming.
In the film, Nicole plays a powerful married company boss who falls in love with a perverted young intern.
And according to the sunIn a revealing new interview, Nicole said that playing scenes with Harrison and Antonio Banderas, 64, as her husband, Jacob, was often too difficult to deal with.
Nicole began by saying: ‘There was a huge amount of sharing and trust and then frustration. It’s like, “Don’t touch me.”
“There were times when we were filming where 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 they never touch me again in my life! I’m over it. “He was so present the whole time for me that it was almost like an exhaustion.”