Reese Witherspoon: ‘Fear’ sex scene with Mark Wahlberg ‘wasn’t great’
nypost.com“Fear.”The now 47-year-old reflected on the roller coaster scene she shot for the film at age 19 that involved her having an orgasm. “I didn’t have control over it,” Witherspoon claimed in an interview published Wednesday by Harper’s Bazaar, adding that she had requested a stunt double.“It wasn’t explicit in the script that that’s what was going to happen, so that was something that I think the director thought of on his own and then asked me on set if I would do it, and I said no,” she said about the James Foley-directed film. “It wasn’t a particularly great experience.”The Post has contacted representatives for Witherspoon, Wahlberg, 52, and “Fear” director James Foley, 69, for comment.
Oscar-winning Witherspoon, who at the time was still years away from career-defining roles including “Legally Blonde,” “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Walk the Line,” said her experience on “Fear” was an early lesson on how she would be treated in the entertainment industry, “I’m certainly not traumatized or anything by it, but it was formative,” she confessed.
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