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