![]() ![]() At times, he said: ‘You know, it’s not in my DNA.’ And it was! I didn’t want him to be sort of Irish and ebullient and Boston. “He really worked hard at a kind of stillness and vulnerability. He looks wrecked a bleary husk next to a stack of beefcakes. He loves Truffaut’s line about Americans making films about heroes and Europeans about losers – and loves it even more when I relate that to Affleck in Deep Water. ![]() Unfaithful was a Chabrol adaptation Truffaut is his hero. Lyne likes living near Marseille and thinks “you’re much better off in Europe”. That sort of loss of innocence is a pity.” The suggestion that a little child naked could in any way be prurient I think is truly fucked up. “Yet, in America, they’ll blur out the buttocks of a four-year-old. You go to the beach and see tiny kids running around naked. “You see a woman’s breasts on television. Photograph: Photo Credit: Claire Folger/Claire Folgerįor someone who has flogged it so profitably, Lyne does not seem that interested in sex, nor in nudity – possibly after so many years living in France. He is blithe about it at first, then, when pressed, admits being close to tears reading reviews and “sometimes getting a bit pissed off, because I don’t think they realise how much you put into it”.Īna de Armas and Ben Affleck. Something about Lyne’s success (Fatal Attraction was the highest grossing film of 1987) as well as his self-deprecation means he has never been a critical darling, even when he has made movies without synths and shagging. He’s an auteur, but never quite got the credit for being so – because of the subject matter and maybe the popularity, too.” My film-maker friends were pretty much in awe of him. Working with Lyne, says the actor Finn Whittrock a few days later, was “a dream come true. There are also abrupt and amazing bits of domestic freakery that Lyne says he stole from Samantha, his wife of 48 years. All Lyne’s signature moves are there – baths! Banisters! Very big kitchens! – but there is substance as well as style. So Deep Water is a sort of erotic thriller after all, just one with a lot more gastropods than most. But it’s always the bumps that are the most interesting ![]() Endlessly, they said: ‘Why the snails? Take the snails out!’ But it’s always the bumps that are the most interesting.” The instinct is to make it mundane. These sequences are not in the novel and “a lot of people” wanted to ditch them. He’s rejected and you can see that he’s decimated by that and takes refuge in his snails.”įrom time to time, Melinda chucks him a crumb: half a handjob, vague fellatio. “Vic was interested in her sexually, but tried to be urbane about it. “I wanted to introduce a kind of complicity,” he says. “It’s hateful and awful and destructive, but it is!” He grins down the camera in our interview: plain navy background, red Hawaiian shirt. ![]() “The hideous truth is that jealousy is an aphrodisiac,” chuckles Lyne. At a house party in the opening scene, a friend approaches Vic, gestures to Melinda and her new fella and asks: “They fuckin’?”Īnd Vic – recast as the inventor of drone microchips – not only cares about the adultery, but is aroused by it, too. Melinda’s indiscretions are made explicit in their social circles. ![]()
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