French actress Juliette Binoche, who stars in the new film ‘Elles’ has revealed that when faced with filming a masturbating scene for the movie, she turned down the chance to film it in private and asked the director to stay and give her full instructions on what he wanted. She also had her own ideas for the scene:
”I said, ‘No way, you stay with me and tell me all the stages you want. You wrote it, you face it, as I have to face it.’ I had it in my mind that it should be like a painting, with expressions of birth and agony.”
Juliette also comments on porn, which she says she doesn’t understand because for her, sex is a very intimate experience that she links to love, and so doesn’t get how men can watch it. She thinks porn is “pathetic” because it takes away this element and makes it more “animal-like”:
”A lot of men take porn as not that important, not that serious, whereas women tend to take it personally. It’s like, ‘How can he make love to me after watching something like this?’ I think the first time I was aware that … (a partner was using porn) … I was really shocked because I didn’t understand it. Lovemaking for me is related to feelings, and sensations with feelings, and so when you don’t have the feelings it becomes animal-like because you’re not in touch with your heart. There’s a sad and pathetic side to it.”
