Speaking about coordinating Normal People's sex scenes, O'Brien explained her process in an interview with Vogue.
Shots of the married couple played by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie having sex were interspersed with footage of them getting dressed to go out to dinner, making the scene in some ways a macrocosmic portrait of a marriage Joanna Angel: This 2009 Notorious B.
By using unfettered sexual mania as the catalyst for his jeremiad, Russell insured that he would whip viewers into a frenzy on par with the one he was depicting onscreen albeit a frenzy of a different kind.
But the two meet again at the same bar this time Hannah is getting over a and have a sexy, sweet, and funny hook-up that turns into more.
The movie got terrible reviews across the board, and the quality of the sex scene is no exception.
It might look tame today, but this is the birthplace of porn.