Rob Lowe has questioned why Nicole Kidman is being called "brave" for her sex scenes in 'Babygirl'.
While the 60-year-old actor enjoyed Nicole's erotic thriller about a high-powered CEO who puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern, he doesn't believe that sex scenes in movies are "brave".
Speaking on his 'Literally!' podcast with guest Kristin Davis, Rob said: "They’re like, ‘It’s so brave. She’s so brave'. She’s brave because she has a sex scene? Like, that’s brave now. In our day, it was required."
He went on to add that early in his career there would be a “page 73 rule” in the “mid-second act” where the “sex scene was always on page 73” and you “didn’t have to read the whole script” to know if a sex scene was planned."
He said: "I know, they Blue Lagoon it, be with each other on a moonlit night. But, now it’s so brave.”
Kristin, 60, agreed, saying: "Things have changed and continue to change".
Rob also said: "I always feel, like, out of chaos comes opportunity. My attitude is always you make the most of it [and] disruption is actually a great time to build new things. If you can be one of the nimble ones and you could be one of the forward-thinking ones … not entrenched and not trying to re-create yesterday but try to understand tomorrow, it’s your time."
Speaking previously about the movie, Nicole, 57, told The Hollywood Reporter: "A lot of times women are discarded at a certain period of their career as a sexual being. So it was really beautiful to be seen in this way. From the minute I read it, I was like, ‘Yeah, this is a voice I haven’t seen, this is a place that I haven’t been, I don’t think audiences have been.’ My character has reached a stage where she’s got all this power, but she’s not sure who she is, what she wants, what she desires, even though she seems to have it all. And I think that’s really relatable."
