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Rob Lowe recalls filming sex scenes with Demi Moore: It was ‘very boring’

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Rob Lowe recalls filming sex scenes with Demi Moore: It was ‘very boring’

Rob Lowe has revealed something more about his “About Last Night” sex scenes with Demi Moore.

Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, both Brat Pack members, bared their souls — and much more — in the midsummer classic, which premiered in theaters on July 4, 1986. The film, directed by Edward Zwick and adapted from a popular David Mamet play, followed the on-again, off-again romance of Chicago twentysomethings Danny (Lowe) and Debbie (Moore), a love story bookended by a meet-cute and an emotionally intense break-up, with plenty of revealing love scenes in between.

The “Mental Samurai” host commented on the experience, which included several passionate sex scenes between the two Generation X Brat Pack members, in an interview with Yahoo! Entertainment.

“In those days, there was a sex scene in every movie,” the actor remembered. “Every script I used to get, I would go to page 73, because that [was] always where the sex scene was!”

He quipped, “It didn’t matter if it was a movie about priests and nuns, on page 73 there was going to be a sex scene. Today, you’d watch 17 movies and never see people with their clothes off unless [the movie] is about that.”

Lowe emphasized the point that, in the heat of the moment, doing such romantic acts on camera wasn’t as “free and open” as one might think.

Lowe said, “They’re not fun. They’re not a hall pass, as much as you would like it to be.”

Despite how enticing those sequences may appear, according to Lowe, “They’re very technical, and usually very boring. I don’t know if you’ve had to kiss anybody for eight hours straight–it’s not fun! It’s not all your [sic] bargain for.”

Rob then recalled recording a sexy scene with Demi.

“We’d just done St. Elmo’s Fire together, so I thought it would be fun to unite with someone different,” he remembered. “But I’m really, really glad it was Demi, and that other people made that decision. We were friendly and we were comfortable [with each other], and that’s the key to doing any love scene or any nude scene in particular.”

In a 2016 interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Zwick acknowledged that About Last Night is the final gasp of a certain period in cinema, as well as the greater cultural environment. “The sexuality was so free and open and the consequence of that was not yet felt,” the filmmaker remarked. “As I think back on it, there was a certain kind of exuberance. It was talking a lot about a very innocent rite of passage. It’s a little different now — in fact it’s a lot different now.”

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