Margo Stilley: Caught in the act . Thus when I turned up to interview her in a central London hotel, the only images I had of this young debutante actress were close- ups of her fellating her co- star, masturbating herself, or in various contortions of penetrative sex. For the duration of the film the only item of clothing she managed to keep on for longer than a few seconds was a blindfold. Needless to say, she looked different with her clothes on. In fact, she looks both younger and older, fresher faced but less malleable. She is also prettier in person, not the slightly awkward and angular figure she cuts on film. With her willowy elevation, it's no surprise that this native of Southern Carolina earned a living as a model. You travel all over the world and get paid a stupid amount of money for doing absolutely nothing.'She came alone to Europe to visit friends when she was 1. Milan to see if she could become a model. Did she know anyone in the city?'I'd never even seen The Godfather,' she says, and I can't tell if she's joking. I didn't know a word of Italian. All the international travel has burnished her downhome Southern charm into an appealing sheen of cosmopolitan confidence. Nevertheless, she says that she is scared, 'really scared'. The source of her fear is the British press. She's already had a preview of our journalistic talents. Last year 9 Songs created headlines when it had a sneak preview at Cannes. Stilley refused to go to the film festival and requested that her name not be used in publicity, but it did not take long for the tabloids to uncover her identity. They even tracked her mother down in South Carolina. The story ran that the mother was a fundamentalist Christian who thought that her daughter had only simulated sex. Such interests might be designated prerequisites for modelling, but apparently it was all too much for the Milanese. Interview with Jeannie McDonough by Chris Young, producer at 48 Hours . Why did you decide to write the book, 'Caught in the Act'? I wrote the book as a way to help me come to grips with the events of July.On top of all that, an 'exboyfriend' informed the same journalist that she was 'happy to do it all the time'. No wonder she's nervous. Of course, it could be said, what did she expect? This is Britain, a nation that for better or worse is reluctant to separate sex from sauciness. What made her say yes?'I wanted to make a film about something I really believe in, which is to show sex in a very positive light, as a very important piece of everyday life and a very important piece of a relationship, whether it's successful or unsuccessful. What I find in films I see is that sex is always a turning point in action, someone's cheating on someone, or someone dies. It's always the kids having sex in horror films that die. And I didn't like that. And in the sexually explicit films I've seen like Ai No Corrida . But it turns out that her views on the misleading depiction of sex stem from her experience as a teenager in America.'I suppose coming from a background that tells you, . So I wanted to be part of a film, a beautiful film, about something that should be viewed in a beautiful light. This is a nice thing, it's fun, everyone does it, it's great and when it's safe - and we're promoting safe sex - and when it's someone you're in love with, it's great.'Of course, lest we forget, she also wanted to be an actress and, as she readily concedes, this opportunity was a short cut to the big screen for someone with no experience. In truth, 9 Songs is unlikely to thrill Sun readers and hot- dog eaters. Rather, it's one for the Sight and Sound and flapjack crowd. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, who has made such splendid and disparate films as In This World and Wonderland, not to mention the underrated 2. Hour Party People, it's a self- conscious attempt to film the act of sex in a naturalistic fashion, without exploitation or heightened drama. The fact that it largely succeeds in these aims also accounts for its failure as a piece of erotic cinema. Critics tend to get their knickers in a twist when it comes to being sexually excited in a cinema - it's seen as somehow pornographic. And a number of critics have praised 9 Songs precisely because it did not arouse them. He denies any grasp of promotional ploys, yet The Cure have built up a vast international following. Is there, behind all that lipstick and conspicuous psychedelia, another Robert Smith with a shrewd eye on the album charts. Popschlager Aktuell hat Lee Baxter und seinen Produzenten Paul Glaser zum Interview in Dortmund getroffen und Streaming resources for Interview: Caught in the Act. Links to watch this USA Movie online. Caught in the Act (CITA) ist eine englisch-niederl. Zum Jahreswechsel 2015/16 traten Caught in the Act in der ZDF-Sendung Willkommen am Brandenburger. Authoresses note: Hey guys (and girls)! Here's something special for you guys (And Gals)! An interview with our favorite FMA character Edward Elric! Here he will be asking me questions about the Caught in the Act series and. Interview Caught in the Act. Kgalagadi, Caracal vs Jackals, a fight between a Caracal and two Jackals about a prey This also seems to be the reason why it was passed uncut by the British film censor, because though graphic, it was deemed not to be pornographic: ie not likely to excite its audience. But if not for sexual enjoyment, why else would you want to watch two people going at it? In recent years there has been an attempt by a number of art- house directors, particularly in France, to deal with sex in a less decorous and more open fashion. In 2. 00. 1, the French director Patrice Ch. Starring Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox, it was a stark, drab film which was most notable for featuring the first mainstream blow job. But for all its kitchen- sink couplings, Intimacy was not a film that was primarily concerned with showing sex. Originally, Winterbottom was inspired to make an explicit sex film after reading Michel Houellebecq's Platform. Indeed, he approached Houellebecq with the idea of an adaptation of the book. An exploration of sex tourism and the breakdown in sexual relations between Western men and women, Platform is decidedly a work in which the sex, while described with straightforward candour, means something more than the act itself. But Winterbottom has taken Houellebecq's matter- of- fact style and dropped everything else. We see the young couple take cocaine, use a vibrator and visit a strip club (which, let's face it, are hardly uncommon pastimes), and these incidents are filmed with an admirable absence of moral judgment. Alas there is also an absence of texture or tension. The fact is the most interesting aspect of the sex in 9 Songs is that it involves an experienced actor, Kieran O'Brien, and a bright young woman who in normal circumstances would not be filmed copulating. Stilley is reluctant to discuss what took place on set. She says that to shed any light on the process would undermine the audience's belief in Lisa, the woman she plays. Frankly, this would be difficult, because there is barely any flesh on the character of Lisa, or rather any character on the bare flesh. As O'Brien's character says at the beginning of the film: 'When I remember Lisa, I don't think about her clothes, or her work, where she was from, or even what she said.' And neither do we. The film may be art- house cinema at its most uncompromising, but it does share certain similarities with hardcore porn, namely its limited script - the dialogue is mostly panting and grunting - and its rudimentary plot: an English glaciologist and an American student meet at a gig, have sex, go to another gig, have more sex, go to another gig, and so on, for nine gigs, until they break up. In contrast to the posturings of pornography, the sex here seems to stem from a recognisable physical attraction. Yet as there is little emotional involvement for the audience, the viewer is placed in the position of voyeur. And as the characters do not loom large in our thoughts, our thoughts easily turn to the people playing them. Are they just 'acting' or is there a genuine connection, is the sex not only unsimulated, but actually stimulating?'That was never an option,' insists Stilley. Any muddiness could have blown things off course.'This is an intriguing idea, that a film about two people having passionate sex would have gone awry if the actors had felt passionate about one another while having sex. Here, presumably, is where the acting comes in, and it is method acting at its most visible. After all, you can't pretend an erection or an ejaculation. They are physiological realities, both of them achieved, with considerable help from Stilley, by O'Brien on screen. In this sense, at least, on screen as off, there is more latitude for acting in the female sexual performance. As to whether Stilley, in the interests of authenticity, also reached an orgasm, she says: 'It was not a sexual experience. The entire film was not a sexual experience for me, in terms of emotions or being aroused.'Both actors have been intent on distancing themselves from each other, in terms of attraction. On set she was the only woman with a crew of four lads. I know how difficult it was for her. You can't get away from the fact she's a young girl.'Stilley counters the suggestion that the shoot was in any way problematic for her. It was very easy because this was the basis of our film so we knew this is what we were going to do, so I was prepared when I came in. I can't speak for anyone else involved.'Whatever took place on set, O'Brien is right on one score: Stilley is young. She was 2. 1 when she made the film, an age when it's easy to make mistakes. Even Kerry Fox, an actress with enormous experience, seemed to regret her part in Intimacy, or at least the effect on her career, despite the fact that she won a Silver Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival. She described the aftermath of the film as the 'worst two years' because the film 'made people even more frightened of working with me than they had been before'. In answer to the suggestion that he has exploited Stilley's youth, Winterbottom has said: 'Is Marlon Brando just the man who was in Last Tango In Paris?' Of course the more obvious comparison is with Maria Schneider, Brando's 1. But Stilley herself is at pains to point out that she was not placed under any pressure at all by Winterbottom, and retained a veto throughout on scenes she did not feel comfortable with. All the same, the nature of the sex was determined by the director. He was specific.'She says she was single during the making of the film, as she is now, and I wondered if she would have made the film had she been in a relationship.'I don't know. I know personally I don't want to see my new boyfriend's holiday pictures. I don't want to see my boyfriend doing that with anyone else, ever. I know it's happened, I'm sure he's had sex before me, but I don't want to think about it or know.'In any case, she has no regrets, and she is very proud of her performance and the film itself.
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