Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.
‘Deep Water’ Director Compares Film’s Sex Scenes to Making ‘Fatal Attraction’: ‘It’s Not Quite So Easy Now’
thewrap.com“Deep Water,” he found the process of filming sex scenes had changed significantly.The new 20th Century Studios film, which debuted on Hulu on Friday, is a sexually charged dramatic thriller starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas as a married couple.
But in an interview with Collider, Lyne got candid about his philosophy when it comes to shooting sex scenes.“You feel like you’re doing it with them.
Even with the sex scenes, I’m a little bit like a cheerleader,” Lyne told Collider about his directorial process during intimate sequences. “I have the horror of imagining these poor people going at it in silence and not knowing whether they look good or whether their ass is flabby.
I get very close, almost like a shrink, or a husband or wife. For 10 weeks or more, you have to develop an incredible intimacy with them.”Lyne compared the preparation for the sex scenes in “Fatal Attraction” with Michael Douglas and Glenn Close to the ones in “Deep Water,” for which he worked with an intimacy coordinator for the first time. “It’s not quite so easy now, as it was.
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