Caroline Rhea on Sex Scenes in "Sordid Lives: The Series"
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Jul 22, 2008
Comedienne and actress Caroline Rhea reports her sex scenes as a hapless housewife in the MTV Networks' Logo channel's "Sordid Lives: The Series" debuting tomorrow (7/23) were no joke. "My sister said, 'You look a little uptight in one of them.' I'm like, 'Uptight? I could barely breathe,'" says Rhea, who co-stars with Olivia Newton-John, Rue McClanahan and Bonnie Bedelia in the series based on the play and 1999 feature film.
Caroline Rhea on Sex Scenes in "Sordid Lives: The Series" (Image: Wenn)
"I had so many foundation garments on, I was like Tutankhamen. It inhibited my ability to move my wrist slightly. They were like, 'Touch his shoulder.' And I'm poking at him because I can barely touch his shoulder." Just when she started thinking things weren't going that badly, "I hear the director say 'Carrie, have you ever had sex before?' I thought, 'Okay, I'm not pulling this off.' I'm a new genre of comedy porn. It's on a gay channel. I don't have hot sex lesbian scenes, but my sex scenes will turn straight men gay. It's totally embarrassing. I don't know how anybody does it.'"
Rhea, who lost her father the end of last year, says shooting the wild comedy was just what she needed to offset what she was going through in her dad's last days, "like this little silver lining to a big cloud." She adds that being transformed into her southern character -- complete with big, teased hair and coral lipstick -- was "very liberating. They asked, 'Do you need drops to make you cry?' and I'm like 'No, between how I feel about my dad and looking at what my hair looks like I can cry all by myself, thank you. No worries.'" She adds, "I got so enmeshed in that character I can't stop talking with the Texas accent. People hear me and go, 'Where you from?' I say 'I'm from Canada.'"
THE BIG SCREEN SCENE: Kris Kristofferson, who's been bouncing from film to film of late, including the forthcoming "Lords of the Street," "Powder Blue" and "He's Just Not That into You," will soon head to Alberta, Canada for shooting of "The Last Rites of Ransom Pride," director Tiller Russell's film about a band of Texas outlaws.
CATCH A WAVE: "Surf School" filmmaker Joel Silverman is getting back to the sand and sea, prepping to go into production with "Surf Movie" -- a comedy about a group of California surfer dudes who head to Costa Rica to avoid summer school, only to wind up helping an auntie of one of the boys who has a problem with real estate developers trying to put her off her land.
With reports by Stephanie DuBois and Emily Feimster.
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