Hollywood movie scenes involving actors getting naked and intimate with each other have gone through various levels of acceptability, necessity, and level of graphic detail they go into. While the early years of cinema were prudish about including sex scenes, from the 1970s onwards they have almost become an unavoidable presence in many mature movies. In 1997’s Lost Highway, Patricia Arquette was required to take part in a nude scene, without the aid of intimacy coordinators, and she recently recalled threatening to punch the film’s crew if they didn’t stop looking at her during filming of the scene.
Filming intimate scenes for a David Lynch classic almost pushed Patricia Arquette over the edge. Read More