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was called
Intimacy, which was released in 2001, and followed a bartender who has weekly sex with a woman he doesn't know (Kerry Fox), and then starts to develop feelings for her. One of these scenes was a real, unstimulated oral sex scene that she performed with co-star Sir Mark Rylance (who years later won an Oscar for Bridge of Spies). Rylance stated '
Intimacy was the most difficult job I've ever had' and that he wished 'he hadn't made it'.
However, Fox had a completely different outlook on the experience, revealing that she had 'no regrets' in doing the film.
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The Times in 2015, she said that the film had influenced her career - albeit sometimes not positively - but that 'filming
Intimacy is not one of her regrets'.
"My career went into a big dip immediately after
Intimacy but that was partly because I got pregnant — so I was fired from my next role — and partly because of the age I was turning: 32." she said. Fox then went onto explain how as a woman in Hollywood at the time, you had to play a character in her late 20s and nothing else. "In the age of internet porn today, it’s hard to believe the reaction to the film, but it did cause a fuss here." she continued to say. "But in Germany the response was really wonderful and mature."
She said that she and the film's director, Patrice Chéreau, spoke about how great it would be to do a 'truthful film about sex'. Fox also spoke about her co-worker's regret, adding that she supposed 'that was the point of taking these risks' because you aren't sure how you are going to react. Calling
Intimacy a 'censorship landmark', she said: "You can’t control how it will affect your career, but if you don’t take risks you’re destined for a life of boring work."
Right on, Kerry!