Subservience director approached ‘intimate scene’ with Megan Fox like an ‘action sequence’

Actress Megan Fox, most known for her role as Mikaela in Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, recently starred alongside Italian actor and model Michele Morrone in Subservience.

Fox plays an exceptionally advanced AI robot named Alice that helps Nick (Morrone) with his family, helping out with tasks such as childcare and housekeeping.

Later on in the flick, Alice and Nick both have intercourse while his wife is hospitalised.

Over time, Fox’s AI character becomes obsessive over Nick, later becoming violent over it.

Director SK Dale spoke to TooFab about how they all dealt with the sex scene in question and revealed he wanted Fox to be seen as the same character in Jennifer’s Body.

In the scene, Fox seduces Nick, blindfolds him, changes her voice to that of his wife and then proceeds to straddle him.

“I really felt that she, with the intimate scenes and everything, having built that trust from the first film [Till Death] with her,” Dale said.

“I thought, well, that’s a really great way to kind of build a safe environment for us to explore these intimate scenes and try and shoot something that felt unique.”

“I had actually treated [the scene] like an action sequence and storyboarded it all out.”

“And the intimacy coordinators and the actors really loved that because they get a very strong idea of, okay, this is what we want, this is how it’s gonna happen.”

“But what I really liked about the intimacy coordinators within the prep of it all was they would ask questions that were story-driven.”

“Like, ‘Okay, how aggressive is this intimate scene? How, how essential is it? Is there kissing?”

“There’s something about it that was kind of clicking in the back of my head, I was thinking about Jennifer’s Body and the way her character arc is in that, I felt there was a lot of similarities here.”

“And I thought her fan base would really love to kind of see her become that badass killer again. So it was exciting to kind of see that happening on a monitor.”

He added that Fox approached her role as the AI robot to someone “physically being a ballerina” and that they were “slow but precise.”