Shia LaBeouf wanted to put a camera on his willy
The actor supposedly asked Lars Von Trier if he could put a filming device on his little guy during sex scenes so that audiences could get ‘the full experience’ or so an ‘insider’ told the New York Post.
Charlotte Gainsbourg’s 1984 duet with her dad is creepier than anything in Nymphomanic
‘Lemon Incest’ was Serge Gainsbourg’s 1984 hit and the video featured him and his then 12-year-old daughter Charlotte lying on each other on a bed, not wearing much. Charlotte breathes ‘L’amour que nous ne ferons jamais ensemble Est le plus beau, le rare, le plus troublant Le plus pur, le plus enivrant,’ which translates roughly to, ‘the love we’ll never make together is the most beautiful, the more rare, the most disturbing, the most pure, the most intoxicating.’ Right.
**The film got banned in Romania **
The Romanian Film Commission gave Nymphomaniac an 18 XXX rating which means a film is illegal to show in public. However, outspoken critics won out in the end and the rating was changed to an meagre 18. Cristina Corciovescu, president of the ratings commission was dismissed. Which seems a little dramatic.
The film finally made a porn star’s mum happy
Elvira Friis, who plays Charlotte’s body double in some of the more erm, saucy scenes has finally made her mum proud. She told the WSJ that, ‘My mom never speaks with her friends about what I am doing, but she straight away told her friend that I am playing in a von Trier movie.’
**Lars Von Trier’s not going to break his ban on speaking to the press **
After that erm, awkward moment in 2011 where the director claimed to ‘Understand Hitler,’ at a press conference for Melancholia, Lars banned himself from speaking to the press. According to the team brought on board to run the film’s campaign (Lars normally handles his campaigns himself), ‘This time he told us he's not going to say a word. He said he wanted a campaign that can speak for the movie so he can keep his mouth shut.’
Don’t worry about Shia LaBeouf, Jaden Smith’s got his back
The former child star’s erratic behaviour is being dismissed by some as a Joaquin Phoenix style publicity stunt but is leaving others convinced that there’s something a little bit ‘off’ with him. No worries though – Jaden Smith’s here to save the day. Will’s son Tweeted, ‘I'm here if you need a fellow insane person to talk to. But I'm seriously here not like one of those I'm here for you that everybody says,’ before later adding, ‘It was a message that only could be understood artist to artist. I'm here for you I believe in what your (sic) doing.’
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.