28 Burning Questions I Had After Watching ‘I Want Your Sex’

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The following article contains spoilers for I Want Your Sex.

This is the year of Olivia Wilde. The actor and director has already brought us this summer’s hit rom-com , she will soon appear in Tony Gilroy’s awards hopeful opposite Pedro Pascal, and is now at the centre of yet another madcap romp: Gregg Araki’s , the Sundance hit which casts her as a terrifying and glamorous contemporary artist, Erika Tracy, who singles out her new assistant, Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), as her latest muse. The pair fall into a strange, surreal, sadomasochistic affair, and things very quickly get out of control.

It’s now in cinemas, and makes for a wild communal viewing experience – one which left us with many, many questions once the credits rolled. These are the 28 still swirling around my brain.

  1. Is this opening a reference?
  2. Does Cooper Hoffman just love playing toy boys? Love that for him.
  3. Does this gallery need so many assistants when they seem to have very little to do?
  4. What does Daveed Diggs’s job entail, exactly?
  5. Why is Elliott’s friend and gallery colleague named “Zap, like a gun”?
  6. Is Erika’s art really that avant-garde, though?
  7. Why does Erika have these ’80s blinds?
  8. Did Charli xcx just agree to do these few scenes in a single location?
  9. Why are Elliott and his friend playing mini golf?
  10. Why is Erika’s house so ugly?
  11. Wait, isn’t this Ben Gross from ’s house?
  12. Is it embarrassing that I recognised it? Yes, yes it is.
  13. Could they not have found another, less-overused modernist LA house to film at?
  14. Where does Erika get all these outfits?
  15. No, seriously, where can I buy these earrings?
  16. Has Olivia Wilde ever had more fun than in this part?
  17. Are these sex scenes supposed to be more scary than titillating?
  18. Why is she wearing an eye patch?
  19. Is the random animation putting anyone else off?
  20. Why is that scene with Elliott and Erika’s friend Yvette soooooo stilted?
  21. Why do I know this actor’s face and immediately think of her as evil?
  22. Wait, isn’t she Béatrice, Prince Louis’s sister from , the one who didn’t want him to marry Blair?
  23. Doesn’t Elliott have any other friends he could invite to this threesome?
  24. Did we need this police station framing device?
  25. Why is Erika now dressed like a 2010s Lady Gaga?
  26. How did she hold her breath for that long?
  27. Could Erika have formulated a better disguise?
  28. Did the wedding dream sequence really freak anyone else out?

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