Ryan Phillippe thought that his parents "deny him" after this film
In a new interview, the actor returns to the classic spicy worship that shocked his family.
If you were a child or a teenager when the futureclassic worship Cruel intentions Went out in 1999, your parents were probably not impatient to see him. The drama, a modern version ofDanger links, is very scandalous, especially for20 years ago. Even one of the film stars was concerned about how his family would feel about his disordered teenagers and sexy scenario. In fact, in a new interview with BarstoolKFC radioPodcast (viaUS Weekly),Ryan Phillipperevealed that he thought his parents could "deny him" to playSebastian Valmont inCruel intentions.
Continue reading to find out what the actor, which features in the new ABC dramaHigh heaven, had to say about this controversial lasting role. And for more teenage classics, consultThe best teen movie out of the year you got.
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Phillippe's parents had already "avoided" for another role.
In the early 1990s, well before being offeredCruel intentions, the actor played a character named Billy Douglas on the Opera soapA life to liveOne of the first mainGay characters on day television. Thanks to Billy, the show tackled problems, including prejudices and stigma around AIDS, but the family and the community of Phillippe were not delighted with its first major role.
"I grew up going to the Baptist school and the Christian School," Phillippe explained on the podcast. "When I was a senior in high school, I played the first gay character on a gay teenager of soap-first - and so I was collapsed at that time. I mean it was 1992, and I played a gay teenager and I was in a Christian school. They were not happy with that. "
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His first reaction to theCruel intentions The script was "are you really guy to do that?"
Phillippe received the script forCruel intentionsWhile he turned the film Slasher from 1997I know what you did last summer. A producer on the horror film has been ready to produce the STEAMY drama. "I remember getting out of the trailer and finding it," said Phillippe to read the Raunchy scenario. "I'm like", you're really going to do that? "And he said," Yeah. ""
Although he was 23 years old whenCruel intentionsFilmed, the actor always feared to upset his family. "I thought my parents were going to make me profitable," he said.
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Here's why the movie was so controversial.
Cruel intentionsCenters on a pair of brothers and sisters played by Phillippe andSarah Michelle Gellar, who are beautiful, rich and bored. Sebastian and Kathryn (Gellar) treat the people around them like toys, especially when it comes to sex. When they learn that the daughter of the school principal director (Reese Witherspoon) wrote a test on abstinence for a teenager magazine, they see each other than Sebastian can not seduce her. Knowing that his stepbroother is attracted by her, Kathryn agrees to be the price if he succeeds. It suffices to say that the film wins its note R at the same time by the dialogue and the scenes of love, even if it ends with a message of true love conquering everything.
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But Phillippe does not regret making the movie.
The actor did not develop the way his parents took the news, nor he did not say if he had even seen the film. It does not matter, it seems that he does not have regrets to do it - and not just because he had to work closely with hisNow ex Witherspoon, who married the year their film came out.
"I have always played character like this since. I want to go back to play a character like SebastianCruel intentions, "Says Phillippe." It was so amusing to be so nauseated and as a kind whatsoever you know, the emotions are theatrical. "
"It's cool that it's holding," he added. "This film finds somehow new fans all the time."
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