Timothee Chalamet Oscar hopes hit by Safdie Brothers break up over controversial intercourse scene
The alleged cause for the break up between Benny and Josh Safdie has revealed up to now again to an incident on the set of Good Time, a Robert Pattinson movie that put the directorial duo on the map.
Josh and Benny Safdie are finest recognized for the Adam Sandler movie Uncut Gems, however have each gone on to make movies that had been main contenders this awards season.
After their skilled break up was introduced in 2023, Benny made Smashing Machine with The Rock, whereas Josh made Marty Supreme with Timothée Chalamet, incomes a number of Oscar nominations together with Greatest Image and Greatest Director.
Nevertheless, the brother’s break up reportedly dates again to an incident on the set of Good Time in 2016, by which a 17-year-old lady was solid to play a prostitute for a intercourse scene within the movie.
It was reported by Variety in 2023 that Sebastian Bear-McClard, a producer on the movie, had been accused of sexual misconduct by a number of girls within the wake of his divorce to mannequin Emily Ratajkowski.
Amongst these claims had been these of the 17-year-old lady, who stated she wasn’t advised her scene would contain nudity and that the actor within the scene uncovered himself and requested if he might ‘stick it in’.
The Safdie brothers are well-known for casting ‘actual’ individuals and never simply actors of their movies, with the lady’s scene accomplice in query being Buddy Durress, a just lately launched convict.
Durress died in 2023 of a heroin overdose.
While the claims had been made public by Selection in 2023 as a part of Ratajkowski’s divorce proceedings, give attention to these has been renewed by a Web page Six report citing the incident as the rationale for the break up between Josh and Benny.
Web page Six declare that Durress was excessive on the time of the scene, which each brothers had been current for, with one nameless on-set supply saying: “Any director who had seen that ought to have yelled ‘Lower!’ and stopped the scene, however Josh let it proceed.”
The outlet additionally said that three completely different sources claimed that Josh was made conscious of her age shortly after the scene was shot when she started to spiral.
Benny reportedly solely came upon her age in 2023 when Selection’s report got here out, one thing described because the ‘closing straw’ for the director to proceed working along with his brother.
The nameless lady stated in a press release obtained by Selection that she had been contacted by way of Instagram by Bear-McClard and had agreed to be in a scene with British actor Robert Pattinson, who starred in Good Time.
She was unaware of what her scene would entail till she was taken to a ‘cramped room’ the place she was bare and stood ‘in entrance of practically a dozen male solid and crew members’, together with the Safdies.
She stated she was ‘completely shocked and felt terrified’ within the assertion, including: “My misery solely worsened when out of nowhere, [Duress] whispered in my ear if ‘he might stick it in’ whereas the cameras rolled. I stated ‘no’.”
Past being a horrific incident in and of itself, it’s going to doubtless have main implications for the Oscars race.
Chalamet beforehand appeared useless set to win his first ever Greatest Actor nomination, with Marty Supreme nominated in 9 completely different classes.
LADbible have contacted representatives for Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie for remark.
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