'The Wackness': Not Your Average Pot Movie
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
Olivia Thirlby
Character: Stephanie
Occupation: Graduating high-school senior, Dr. Squires’ stepdaughter, and Luke Shapiro’s crush.
Hollywood.com: What was it like shooting your first sex scene?
Olivia Thirlby: Well, it was a huge deal for me to be doing a sex scene and actually to even be in a bikini. I mean I never thought that would happen. I've kind of been against wearing bikini's in public for my entire life and have turned down roles because they've had sex scenes in them. This was awkward, but it's so false. It's such a weird fabrication. There's nothing sexual about doing a sex scene. So that's like where the real acting comes in because you have to look like your enjoying yourself while it's all fake. It was awkward, but the kind of thing where you build it up in your mind a lot before it happens and then all of a sudden you're naked in front of five or six people and they're pointing the camera at you and then it's over and I'm really happy with the way that it turned out.
HW: At least the sex scene was an important step in moving the story forward, as opposed to most movies.
OT: There's so much sex in movies that's gratuitous. In fact, 90 percent of sex in movies doesn't really need to be there or at least the nudity – it's just unnecessary.
HW: Did you create any kind of back story for your character’s relationship with her stepfather?
OT: We decided that he'd been her step dad for many years and that she's really grown up with him around and she definitely understands why her mother is married to him. She adores him. She doesn't really look at him as a father figure though. He's way too much of a child and there's actually a scene that got cut where I'm kind of getting ready in my room to go out and he comes in and asks for weed. She doesn't look at him as a father figure, but he's very much in her heart and her heart goes out to him when he's hurting.
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