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The Lesbian Sex Scenes in Bound Seemed So Real the Movie Was Almost Rated NC-17
Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s first feature film, the noir thriller Bound, created a minor sensation when it was released in 1996, garnering press for its ornate visual style—and for the lesbian love affair at its center. The movie’s twisty plot follows just-out-of-prison Corky (Gina Gershon) and gangster’s moll Violet (Jennifer Tilly) as they enter into a whirlwind romance and hatch a scheme to rip off the Mob. talked her way onto the set to serve as an expert consultant on Bound, helping the siblings create believable heat between the characters—and a realistic, explicit sex scene, which caused the MPAA to threaten the movie with an NC-17 rating.
Bright: I still find most mainstream depictions of lesbian relationships to be pathetically bourgeois. It’s just upstanding citizens, lesbians, who are middle class and have sex. Oh, how exciting! Fuck that. You know what I love about Bound? It’s about working-class characters who are divorced from bourgeois aspiration and from the platitudes of capitalist American Dream happiness.
The love towards and fascination with queer women the Wachowskis show in Bound reminds me of my pre-transition fiction It’s not just the decision to tell this queer story, but the commitment to telling it right. Only recently has it become normalized for filmmakers to acknowledge their limitations, bring on consultants, and try to represent identities they don’t have with accuracy. But in the mid-90s, the Wachowskis collaborated with writer and “sexpert” Susie Bright to make sure Bound felt real. Bright is responsible for the gay bar being populated with a realistic group of queer women — including Bright! — and she’s responsible for some of the best lesbian sex scenes in the history of cinema.
Bound babe as lesbian sex slave
