Caitlin Bowers

The aesthetics of casual sex in ‘Love and Other Drugs’

In a November interview with Newsweek Magazine, Edward Zwick revealed his graphic and dirty little secrets on how he was able to direct sex scenes while filming the recently released Love and Other Drugs. The film, starring Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhall, depicts the story of Maggie, a young woman struggling with Parkinson’s, and Jamie, an arrogant drug salesman. You won’t find much more of a synopsis than this. Even the Huffington Post remarked that “it finally ends up being about nothing much at all.” Aside from the empty plot, the film displays the duo diving into an anything-but-fulfilling physical […]
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