If there's a director who knows how to make an erotic thriller in Hollywood, it's Adrian Lyne.
Author of films such as “9 1/2 weeks”, “Indecent Proposition” and “Fatal Attraction”, Lyne, 81, practically defined that genre in the 1980s and 1990s.
Then his career suffered a sharp halt, in the early 2000s. He hasn't shot a movie for two decades, but his return to the screens has been in a big way.
“Deep Water” (“Deep Water”), on Amazon Prime Video as of March 18, returns to the topic of marital infidelity, with Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas.
Both were a couple in real life, briefly. And with less drama than in the film, in which the character of Armas almost drove her husband crazy with his infidelity.
“When I did the casting, I did a test at my home in Los Angeles,” Lyne explained to AFP in an interview via Zoom.
“I didn't know much about Ana... but when I saw how she worked with Ben, I immediately realized that chemistry worked between them. It's not about him or her, it's about both, together,” he explained.
- 'Complicated emotions' -
One of the things that have changed since Lyne left the camera is the appearance in the film industry of 'intimacy coordinators', a kind of mediator to make sex scenes as relaxed as possible for actors.
“I was shocked at the prospect,” Lyne says.
“I don't like that there is no trust between the actors and the director. If you don't have that, you have nothing. I have to be willing to die for them, and they for me.”
The most difficult thing, however, was to preserve the film's destabilizing message: “Very often the instinct of studios is to discard the uncomfortable aspects of a script. But those parts are often the most interesting,” Lyne said.
“I wanted to make a film in which there was complicity between the two. It's not a happy, conventional marriage. There is a feeling of discomfort,” he explains.
- 'Incredibly destructive' -
In the film, the character played by Ana de Armas deceives her husband openly, with a certain complicity of him, something that clashes with the wave of puritanism and politically correct discourse present in Hollywood.
The central theme of the feature film is jealousy. “Such a complicated emotion... It's obviously incredibly destructive, but it also has an erotic component,” he argues.
Lyne has been married for almost 50 years. His last film was “Infidel”, with Richard Gere.
Is your wife uncomfortable with this obsession with adultery?
“She's sitting next to me, so I have to be careful,” Lyne says with a laugh, during the video interview.
“I don't know why I keep shooting those kinds of movies,” he confesses. “It may seem cheesy, but I like movies where you can get into the actor's shoes. I may like 'Dune' or 'The Matrix', but I prefer films with a smaller budget, about you or about me.”
Lyne says there is no particular reason why he was away from shooting for twenty years. Simply the reality of the film industry, in which projects sometimes wreck after years of effort.
“I can't wait another 20 years,” she says laughing. “I'll be 100 years old!
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