Reese Witherspoon on Filming the Sex Scene in 'Fear' at 19: ‘I Didn’t Have Control Over It'

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Fear asked then to film a sex scene that hadn't been made explicit in the script, she said no. But she says the experience was formative for the rest of her career.

In the movie, also starring Marc Wahlberg, Wahlberg's character uses his fingers to make Witherspoon's character orgasm while the two are on a rollercoaster—but Witherspoon said the details of that scene weren't known to her beforehand.“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.

It wasn’t a particularly great experience,” Witherspoon told in a recent interview. “I didn't have control over it.” Witherspoon requested a body-double for scenes shot below the waist. “I’m certainly not traumatized or anything by it, but it was formative,” she told Bazaar. “It made me understand where my place was in the pecking order of filmmaking.

I think it’s another one of those stories that and someone who maybe can be in a better leadership position to tell stories from a female perspective instead of from the male gaze.”With her , Reese Witherspoon has made good on that goal.By Anna BaderBy Anna BaderBy Emily TannenbaumBy Alexandra SchöbMore from GlamourSee More Stories© 2023 Condé Nast.