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Joshua Jackson first gained fame in the '90s and early '00s as a heartthrob in Dawson's Creek, with his character Pacey emerging as an unlikely romantic hero. His latest role at 44 is more complicated than that... and a hell of a lot more racy.
Jackson stars opposite Lizzy Caplan in a reimagining of the 1987 erotic thriller Fatal Attraction, in which a married man's affair ends up ruining his life. But before the obsessive stalking can begin, the TV show takes great pains to depict realistic, believable sexual chemistry between Dan (Jackson) and Alex (Caplan).
"The sex scenes are of great importance," Jackson told Variety in a recent interview, "because they’re furthering the narrative. You have to believe that these people want to fuck each other."
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Given the discourse surrounding sex scenes on TV right now—actor Penn Badgley recently stated that he requested not to have any in the latest season of You—you might expect Jackson's wife, model and actress Jodie Turner-Smith, to be less than thrilled. In actual fact, it's quite the opposite.
"Jodie is not fussed about my sex scenes," Jackson said. "The sex scenes themselves, Jodie kind of enjoys them, actually. It’s a weird thing where she’s like a voyeur. So that works! If that’s your thing — excellent."
He went on to say that he and Caplan worked with an intimacy coordinator on their sex scenes together, and that the Paramount+ series also took great pains to not fall into any obvious clichés.
"There are so many ways to tell the story of a sex scene that don’t need to be about certain pieces of a woman’s body," he said. "There are so many different ways that this can give you all of that stuff without it having to be exploitive of the women’s body."
