Anna Faris was super reluctant to do this disturbing movie scene
In the heyday of gross comedy, few sequences were as gross as the spectacular sex scene between Anna Faris and Jon Abrahams in Scary Movie. In this week’s special Halloween issue of Entertainment Weekly, Faris and director Keenan Ivory Wayans reveal that he could have been cut from the film altogether.
In case you don’t remember, if you were too young to step into the 2000 R-rated comedy (or if you just blocked it), Cindy de Faris has sex for the first time with her boyfriend Bobby (Abraham) at a party. . He ejaculates a fountain of cum so hard it shoots up to the ceiling, and Bobby looks like an emaciated shell of himself.
In the heyday of gross comedy, few sequences were as gross as the spectacular sex scene between Anna Faris and Jon Abrahams in Scary Movie. In this week’s special Halloween issue of Entertainment Weekly, Faris and director Keenan Ivory Wayans reveal that he could have been cut from the film altogether.
In case you don’t remember, if you were too young to step into the 2000 R-rated comedy (or if you just blocked it), Cindy de Faris has sex for the first time with her boyfriend Bobby (Abraham) at a party. . He ejaculates a fountain of cum so hard it shoots up to the ceiling, and Bobby looks like an emaciated shell of himself.
Wayans recalls Faris being nervous about the scene, especially since it was her first film role. “[S]o I took her for a little walk and said, ‘I’m not going to decide if it stays in the movie,’ he told the magazine. ‘The public will decide. If they laugh, you will have no reason to be embarrassed. If they bitch, I give you my word, I’ll cut it from the movie. She took a deep breath and committed 100%, and the rest is history.”
Yet, in Faris’ memory, she seemed unsure of how to act during the site gag.
“I didn’t know what to say when [Wayans] called ‘Action’,” she said. “I turned to Jonny and said, ‘So wait, what are we supposed to do?’ And he was like, ‘Say your line.'”
Despite mixed reviews (The New York Times called its jokes “less dull for their vulgarity than for their fatigue”), Scary Movie was a box office hit and still ranks as the No. 2 horror-comedy. of all time, second only to the original Ghostbusters. Also, we have him to thank for bringing Anna Faris into our lives.
This Scary Movie reminiscence is part of EW’s feature full of “Hollywood’s Greatest Untold Stories” about other films in the horror genre, including Child’s Play, The Craft and Hocus Pocus. It hits newsstands October 13.
