Karley Sciortino Reveals the Inspiration Behind Sundance Hit ‘I Want Your Sex’

Name: Karley Sciortino Notable past credits: Sciortino has written about sex and sexuality in a column for Vogue; in a memoir, “Slutever: Dispatches From an Autonomous Woman in a Post Shame World,” and on her site “Slutever,” which became a series for Viceland by the same name in 2018. She and Gregg Araki cowrote the comedy series “Now Apocalypse,” which had its premiere at Sundance in 2019. Sundance project: “I Want Your Sex,” which she cowrote with Araki, the film’s director. Starring Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Chase Sui Wonders, Mason Gooding and Charli XCX, the raunchy comedy follows a dom-sub relationship between a provocative artist (Wilde) and her assistant (Hoffman).  “It’s based on a really core sexual coming-of-age moment for me,” Sciortino says. “I had this kind of dom-sub relationship with an older guy who was an editor of mine at the time, and I was only 24, 25. And it really opened my mind to what dom-sub dynamics could be.” Sciortino wrote the first version of the script 13 years ago, when she was 27.  “People say it over and over, how hard it is to get a movie made, but it is a surreal experience for me to be here for a movie

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