New Film 'Chloe' Boasts a Lesbian Love Scene
'Chloe' is a dark film with an even darker behind-the-scenes story
March 18, 2010— -- At the New York premiere of the erotic psychological thriller, "Chloe," sex and marriage, the two themes at the heart of the plot, seemed to be taboo.
Blustery weather forced the press to the basement of the trendy Lower East Side Landmark Sunshine Theater, where reporters huddled together for the chance to interview the director and stars Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried. But Liam Neeson, the third star in the film's love triangle, did not appear at the U.S. premiere.
When Neeson's wife Natasha Richardson died a year ago in a freak skiing accident, he had to interrupt the filming of "Chloe." On the one-year anniversary of Richardson's death, fans can hardly blame Neeson for dodging media scrutiny.
Aside from Richardson's death, the elephant on the red carpet was the movie's much-buzzed-about sex scene between Moore and Seyfried. "Chloe," based on the French film "Nathalie" from 2003, is the story of a gynecologist (Moore) who suspects her husband, a charming music professor (Neeson), is being unfaithful.
Moore hires a hooker named Chloe (Seyfried) to seduce him and prove her point. In the process, Moore falls for Seyfried and their affair eventually endangers Moore's family.
When asked about the movie's pivotal lesbian rendezvous, Moore, 25 years Seyfried's senior, told ABCNews.com: "It's part of the story. We're telling a story and it's really about that." But in reference to Seyfried as a colleague, Moore beamed, "She's great… Really, really terrific, [and] very professional. She's a really lovely actress, [and] very receptive."
Egyptian Director Atom Egoyan was also reticent when discussing the Seyfried-Moore love scene, but for a different reason. Egoyan told ABCNews.com, "…It's kind of awesome really. The movie's about the two women having this strange kind of competing sense of what their fantasies of each other are …I don't want to give it away, but it just seems to me, if …[the chemistry] didn't work, [and] if there wasn't a lot going on between the two of them, this wouldn't have been a movie…. They're both so exceptional in these roles."
Egoyan sidestepped any discussion of Richardson and the film's production delay because of Neeson's hiatus. "He's very tall… He's really big…, I mean like he's exceptionally tall," Egoyan joked.
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