In the current scenario, Sydney Sweeney is one of the busiest actors in Hollywood. Following her success in her romantic comedy Anyone But You with Glenn Powell. she starred alongside Dakota Johnson in the box office bomb Madame Web. And now she has starred in the horror film Immaculate, her first production.
In Immaculate, Sweeney plays a nun who travels to a convent in Italy where things are not as they seem to be. Immaculate is directed by Michael Mohan, who Sydney Sweeney has worked with before, and she has been naked in his projects before.
Director Mohan recently talked about the s*x scenes and n*dity in his latest project Immaculate and previous ones as well.
Immaculate Director Michael Mohan Talks About GenZ’s Hypocrisy Regarding S*x Scenes in Movies
Michael Mohan’s previous project The Voyeurs cast Sydney Sweeney as Pippa and it was their second collaboration. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Mohan said that he was quite pleased with the movie’s outcome, which had a fair share of steamy, intimate scenes. And he said that he was proud of them calling the s*x scenes in the movie the best of this decade.
And as he is back with Immaculate which also has a bit of n*dity. There are sequences with nuns in showers and baths, though never completely n*de, they are however wearing see-through white robes. In an interview with Variety, director Mohan talked about the intimate scenes and n*dity in movies.
When asked from GenZ’s perspective saying that they nowadays feel reluctant to those steamy scenes in movies, Mohan directly said that s*x scenes are necessary in movies. He said:
“It is necessary. Movies should elicit a number of responses: Funny movies should be funny, dramatic movies should make you cry. We used to have movies that were sexy, that would turn people on, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. It’s a spice that is missing in our current cinematic landscape that we absolutely need.”
Defending making such movies he said that there should not be an issue. He added:
“The fact that it’s sexy is not a bad thing. It is OK to make movies that are sexy. And if that’s something that you’re not into, don’t watch. That’s not the audience I’m going for. I think it’s all talk, because “The Voyeurs” was massively successful on Amazon. They’re watching it, they’re just not admitting to watching it.”
Mohan previously directed Sweeney on the Netflix series Everything Sucks. Alongside Sweeney, the movie stars Alvaro Morte, Benedetta Porcaroli, and Simona Tabasco.
As Long As The Characters Demand It, Sydney Sweeney Has No Problem In S*x Scenes
Sydney Sweeney, already a two-time Emmy nominee for her roles in Euphoria and The White Lotus does not have an issue with doing n*de scenes in movies as long as the characters she is playing demand it.
However, in her recent project Immaculate, she does not have any such scenes as she plays an innocent nun. And thus, she said that it’s not necessary to go n*ked in this movie. She told the LA Times:
‘It didn’t serve the character. It’s always whether it serves the character or not. I’m living someone else’s life. So if it serves to the development or the emotional state of a character, then it makes sense. But she was a nun. It didn’t make sense.”
In Immaculate, there was a scene that could have framed Sweeney in such a sequence, but even if it did, there was nothing to go fully disrobed. Sweeney added:
“And it’s just like if she was in the bathhouse, she would just be wearing her overdress, her bathing dress, and no bra. And so it’s truthfully just whatever the character would do. I never think about it. I mean, the character wouldn’t wear a bra in most of the stuff, so I didn’t wear a bra. It just depends on the character. I truly just look at everything like that.”
And, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress said that despite getting backlash, she won’t stop doing all these scenes and appearing all bare on screen. She defended that n*dity is essential as long as it is viewed as art and a part of a larger story.
Immaculate was released on March 22, 2024, and is gaining praise from fans and critics alike.
