Rob Lowe Reacts to Nicole Kidman Being Called “Brave” for Sex Scenes – E! Online

Rob Lowe has a fiery take on the sex scene discourse.

While the 9-1-1: Lone Star alum knows that filming those scenes sometimes comes with the job of being an actor, he doesn’t understand why actors are being praised for filming them—specifically, Nicole Kidman’s steamy role in A24’s Babygirl.

“They’re like, ‘It’s so brave. She’s so brave,’” Lowe, 60, said to Sex and The City star Kristin Davis on the Feb. 27 episode of his Literally! podcast. “She’s brave because she has a sex scene? Like, that’s brave now. In our day, it was required.” 

During his rise to fame, Lowe said a sex scene often made an appearance in the “mid-second act” of a project, joking, “You didn’t have to read the whole script. You just went to page 73.”

“I know, they Blue Lagoon it,” Lowe—who shares sons Matthew Edward Lowe, 32, and John Owen Lowe, 29, with wife Sheryl Berkoff—continued, “[and] be with each other on a moonlit night. But, now it’s so brave.”