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Actor who performed act on director in unsimulated sex scene on how it impacted her career

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Updated 17:16 4 Jul 2025 GMT+1Published 16:25 2 Jul 2025 GMT+1

Actor who performed act on director in unsimulated sex scene on how it impacted her career

She engaged in an unsimulated X-Rated act in the film

Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin

An actor who carried out a sexual act on the director of a film in an unsimulated sex scene spoke about how the controversy affected her career.

Despite what many fans think there are actually some celebrities who have had genuine sex on screen.

For some, such as Robert Pattinson, this can be unsimulated masturbation and in the case of others like Willem Dafoe it can be achieved through splicing his simulated sex scenes with adult actors performing the same scene.

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In the case of Chloe Sevigny things went one step further, performing a sexually extreme act on her co-star and director.

This took place in 2003 on the set of the film The Brown Bunny.

It follows Vincent Gallo as Bud Clay, a motorbike racer who is travelling across the US trying to solve the problem of his loneliness.

He meets several women along the way but cannot get the thought of one particular woman out of his head, his former lover Daisy.

Daisy is played by Sevigny and, towards the end of the film, performs oral sex on Bud.

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Rather than using a trick of the camera, Sevigny genuinely performed the sexual act on her co-star Gallo, as decided by the film’s director – Vincent Gallo.

The controversial actor starred, directed, and wrote the film, as well as acting as the producer, director of photography, editor, art director, and multiple other roles on the film.

The film is very racy (Wellspring)
The film is very racy (Wellspring)

The film caused a great deal of controversy, with Gallo getting into a verbal altercation at the Cannes Film Festival with legendary film critic Roger Ebert.

Though Ebert reportedly said a colonoscopy was more entertaining than The Brown Bunny, he later gave a re-edited version a three-star review.

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Sevigny was herself drawn into much of the controversy around this with early reports stating she had been dropped by an agent as a result.

She refuted this, stating it was due to a conflict with her previous rep leaving and not liking the person they were replaced with leading her to leave.

Speaking about the controversy surrounding the film however she said: “I think Vincent is very good at whipping up hysteria. He enjoys all that, but it was not so much fun for me.

“Not fun when it was happening and still not so fun now. Really not.”

Sevigny has continued to have a successful career (Dia Dipasupil via Getty Images)
Sevigny has continued to have a successful career (Dia Dipasupil via Getty Images)

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She has since stated she no regrets starring in it and claims it didn’t have a major effect on her career.

Though many at the time feared it would ruin her career, taking place just two years after her Oscar nomination for Boys Don’t Cry.

Far be it from that however she actually landed arguably even bigger roles after the controversy of The Brown Bunny, starring in a Woody Allen film and David Fincher’s Zodiac.

Speaking in an interview with W Magazine she said: “I got my first studio film after that. I’d never been offered a studio film. It was Zodiac. I don’t think it really hurt me, necessarily.

“I mean, it hurt me, in a lot of ways…Some relationships have had trouble with it. Of course, my mom and I don’t talk about it.”

Featured Image Credit: Wellspring

Topics: Film, Celebrity, TV and Film, Sex and Relationships

Michael Slavin
Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin is LADbible's dedicated specialist Film and TV writer. Following his completion of a Masters in International Journalism at Salford University, he began working for the Warrington Guardian as a reporter. Throughout this he did freelance work about Entertainment for publications such as DiscussingFilm, where he was the Film and TV editor. Now, he is LAD's go to voice on all things Netflix, True Crime, and UK TV, as well as interviewing huge global stars such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Daisy Ridley, and Ben Stiller.

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