Wilde, Cooper Hoffman Lead Araki's 'I Want Your Sex' Trailer
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- "I Want Your Sex" released its first trailer, with Olivia Wilde starring as an assured artist who begins a sadomasochistic relationship with her assistant (Cooper Hoffman)
- The sex comedy features ball gags, whips, strap-ons, and a threesome gone wrong, with supporting cast including Charli xcx, Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, and Daveed Diggs
- Magnolia Pictures won U.S. distribution rights in a seven-figure bidding war out of Sundance
- Variety's Peter Debruge called the film "an unconventional rom-com" that extends Araki's "queer indie pioneer" sensibilities with "screwball comedy" sensibilities
- Wilde told Variety the film is "an incredibly irreverent, playful take on showing this part of the sexual revolution of a young person," with sex used as "a metaphor for something that's really applicable to everybody's experience"
- The film marks Gregg Araki's return to feature directing after 2014's "White Bird in a Blizzard," following a decade of TV work on Riverdale, 13 Reasons Why, Monster, and American Gigolo
Why it matters: Magnolia's seven-figure Sundance bid signals concrete commercial appetite for provocative, sex-positive indie cinema at a time when theatrical distribution for boundary-pushing work is rare. For Araki — a '90s queer indie icon — the film also marks his first theatrical feature in over a decade, a return from a TV journeyman phase to the transgressive territory that defined his career.
