Rob Lowe was 'required' to film steamy sex scenes in the 80s, now it's 'unusual' for an actor

While chatting about Lowe's 1988 film, "Masquerade," which he starred in alongside "SATC" star Kim Cattrall and Meg Tilly, the actor recalled the studio dumping the movie because it was "too sexy."

"I know, can you imagine such a thing?" Davis said.

Lowe admitted the sex scenes were "pretty gratuitous."

"But it was great. It was sexy," he added. "I wish we had sexy movies now. Nobody has sex scenes in movies anymore."

Shifting the conversation to the 2024 erotic thriller starring Nicole Kidman, "Babygirl," Davis said that it's still "unusual" to see sexy films these days. 

"We're like, 'Oh, thank God someone made a sexy movie,' like, it's an unusual thing now," she said.

Lowe agreed and admitted it's a double-standard to dub actors "brave" for participating in sex scenes. 

"Oh, when they're like, 'It's so brave. She's so brave.' She's 'brave' because she has a sex scene. Like, that's brave now, and in our day, it was required."

"They're not fun," he continued. "They're not a hall pass, as much as you would like it to be. They're very technical, and usually very boring. I don't know if you've had to kiss anybody for eight hours straight - it's not fun! It's not all you bargain for."