If you were hoping to see some of your favorite actors going at it for real in Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac, I have some disappointing news for you. Producer Louise Vesth tells THR that the two-part feature will digitally blend the stars of the movie with their body doubles. Everything above the waist will be the name actor, and then their body doubles will handle the hardcore sex below. "We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body doubles, who really did have sex, and in post we will digital-impose the two," says Vesth. The producer added that Von Trier is also "using double exposures and imposing words and symbols over the action as part of his storytelling." Hit the jump for more. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Connie Nielsen, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Jean-Marc Barr, and Udo Kier. Although some footage was shown to potential buyers at the Cannes, the completed film will bypass the major festivals in the fall, and premiere in Denmark. Magnolia will distribute the movie in the U.S., but we don't know if they'll be distributing both the hardcore and the softcore versions. The revelation about the sex scenes isn't too surprising, especially since the producers had previously mentioned that the sex scenes "will be performed with the help of body doubles and visual effects." Von Trier has also come close to this ground before. In Antichrist, he opened the film with Willem Dafoe and ...
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