November 07, 2003
Sex scene body doubles actually
There's a mostly negative review of the new BritRomCom Love Actually in the New York Times.
There is, however, this enticingly positive little description of a scene which could surely have been the basis of an entire movie:
The funniest and most winning on-the-job romance bubbles up between two people (Martin Freeman and Joanna Page) who work as body doubles on a movie set, miming explicit sex scenes in the absence of the prudish stars. As their naked bodies go through the motions, the two of them chat mildly about traffic and the weather, …
Interesting that the scene that the NYT guy picks on is the one with the least famous actors in it.
I predict that the price of the DVD will begin its slide from extortionate to ultra-bargain just after Christmas, and get to the bottom of the slope pretty quickly.

