“Gaspar had decided to start with a close up of my genitals,” he recalls of the first day of shooting. Glusman, who has a minor part in Roland Emmerich’s upcoming gay drama Stonewall, was thrown in at the deep end. “I didn’t ask Karl to show me but I knew a girl who slept with him and she said he is ‘gifted’.” The casting process must have been interesting? “Men have no issues especially about showing their penis erect.” “Almost every actor I approached about doing the specific scenes was happy to do it,” Noé admits.

“The good thing about this movie is all the people I proposed to be on-screen knew my previous movies and knew we were doing something valuable, a real movie about a real subject - love - and not something dirty,” Noé says.Įven so, the nudity is surely confronting? Yet it took some time to fund.Įventually realising that stars wouldn’t be up for it, he found Karl Glusman, an American actor from the Bronx, and managed to convince two French women Aomi Muyock and Klara Kristin to participate. Noé would go on to make the less successful drug-drenched melo-drama, Enter The Void, all the while knowing it would be Love that would again capture the audience’s attention. They had demurred on the explicit sex, yet violent French films (including their pairing in Jan Kounen’s ultra-violent thriller Dobermann) didn’t pose such a threat. Interestingly, Love had been in the works long before Irreversible and Noé had wanted the then happily married couple, current Bond woman Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, to star. He’d made his name with 1998’s I Stand Alone about a disturbed butcher who had been abused by priests in his childhood, while his ensuing rape drama, Irreversible, must be one of the most confronting films ever made.

Ultimately his 3D ejaculation scene became the most talked about scene at the festival.Ī Cannes regular, the Argentina-born French director loves to shock, though in the past he had dealt more with violence. Noe had to spend 20-hour days poring over his naked images in order to have the film ready.

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