Why Jack Reynor Lobbied For Male Nudity In Horror Film

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Director Ari Aster’s Hereditary followup, Midsommar, has been applauded by our personal Vince Mancini as a masterpiece and by Jordan Peele as an iconic entry into the horror style. The movie follows an American couple’s terrifying journey to a Swedish commune the place disturbing, clique-y antics start to unfold on the summer time solstice. Among the film’s many extremely disturbing scenes, Jack Reynor’s character will get drugged up and compelled to take part in a ritual the place he goes full frontal. He mentioned the scene’s gory particulars with SPOILERS at Thrillist, the place Reynor says that the scene took two weeks to movie.

Reynor additionally obtained actual whereas talking to The Wrap about why he needed to make it possible for the scene saved him as nude as doable. In quick, he’s a horror fan who is aware of all too nicely what number of style entries are perceived as exploitative in direction of girls, and Reynor thought it was vital to show the tables:

“There are so many films in the history of cinema, particularly in the horror genre — I watch a lot of this stuff, and I notice there’s a pervasive culture of really difficult and humiliating and expositional scenes of murder and sexual violence towards women and you don’t really see that kind of stuff in films where it happens to men.”

Reynor was fast to observe up with saying that his character’s destiny, which is horrible, nonetheless isn’t a drop within the bucket in comparison with what occurs in Wes Craven’s 1972 movie, The Last House on the Left. That film incorporates a rape scene along with an excessive amount of different graphic violence towards girls, and there are a great deal of different horror films that do the identical, together with 1978’s infamous I Spit on Your Grave. For that motive, Reynor says that he needed to do what was doable to incorporate a “very kind of humiliating sequence” for his male character that included “as much full frontal as we could go for.” He succeeded on that finish, and Midsommar is presently in theaters.

(Via The Wrap)