Chloe Sevigny 49, is gaining notoriety among the general public due to a project that is trending at the moment. The actress, who was once muse of indie cinema and nominated for an Oscar now finds itself at the center of pop culture discussions with “Monsters: Menendez Brothers: Parent Killers “, series of Netflix about the case of the brothers who murdered their parents.
But before playing Kitty Menendez, the family matriarch on the streaming series, Sevigny was best known for a controversial sex scene. In 2003, the actress participated in the film “Brown Bunny “, which was directed, written, produced and starred by Vincent Gallo (from “Buffalo 66”), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
In the plot, Sevigny plays Daisy, the ex-lover of pilot Bud Clay, who frequently haunts him as he tries to move on with his life. However, what generated controversy in the film was not the story itself, but one of the sex scenes. In particular, a sequence in which the character of Chloë Sevigny performs oral sex in Vincent Gallo, a scene that was not simulated .
Before the film’s premiere at the Cannes Festival, the scene was already widely discussed in the entertainment world, including rumors that its representatives at William Morris Agency had dropped her — which proved incorrect, as the agency still looks after the actress to this day.
At the time, there was a feeling that Sevigny’s career could be forever tarnished because of a single scene.
If the situation was already delicate before the European festival, at the film’s premiere it became even worse. The public and critical reaction at Cannes was overwhelmingly negative, with the renowned critic Roger Ebert going so far as to declare that “Brown Bunny” It was the worst film ever shown in the history of the event . He also claimed that Sevigny cried during the screening of the feature film.
Almost a year later, in August 2004, during the official release of “Brown Bunny” in the United States, Sevigny defended the film and its controversial final scene stating: “It’s a shame that people write so many things without watching it. When you see the movie, it makes more sense. It’s a work of art . It should be displayed in museums. It’s like an Andy Warhol movie.”
Despite the negative reaction to Sevigny’s participation in the film, some critics praised his choice . Manohla Dargis critic for the New York Times, stated: “It is truly surprising see a famous actress risk her career . But give her credit. Actresses have been asked, and even coerced, to perform similar acts for filmmakers since the dawn of cinema, often behind closed doors.”
In 2017, she spoke about the subject again in an interview with Interview Magazine, where she stated: “I got my first studio film after that . I had never been offered a studio film before. It was ‘Zodiac’. I don’t think it hurt me, necessarily. I mean, it affected me in a lot of ways… Some relationships were impacted because of this . Of course my mother and I never spoke about it.”
Menendez brothers
In the production of Netflix the duo Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch play the brothers convicted of murdering their parents.
José Menendez is played by Javier Bardem known for his role in “Dune”, while Kitty Menendez is played by Chloe Sevigny .
“Monsters”: see the Menendez story, theme of the Netflix series
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