'Love Lies Bleeding' and the fear and allure of strong women

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Erotic thrillers are meant to be sexy, bloody, and fun. The best of them also deal with shifts in culture that people are anxious about: Fatal Attraction was about the threat of working single women, and Basic Instinct got into bisexual panic. A hot new erotic thriller takes on women's strength and capacity for rage: Love Lies Bleeding is an 80's fantasia of big muscles and big hair with steamy sexy scenes and thrilling plot twists. It follows the story of a bodybuilder named Jackie, played by Katy O'Brian, who falls madly in love with gym manager Lou, played by Kristen Stewart. Host Brittany Luse sat down with Katy O'Brian to talk about strong women and the fantasy of wielding the rage that lurks just under the surface.

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0:25.0	A warning to listeners, this episode references sex and violence
0:29.0	and contains language that may be offensive. Hello, hello, I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to it's been a minute from NPR.
0:39.0	A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. One thing to know about me and movies, if it's an erotic thriller, I'm gonna watch it.
0:57.0	It's a perfect mash-up of genres that always promises to be sexy, suspenseful, and fun.
1:05.0	So I am thrilled to report that a new erotic thriller,
1:07.8	titled Love Lies Bleeding,
1:10.5	Absolutely delivers. Directed by Rose Glass, the movie is an 80s
1:15.2	Fantasia of big muscles, big guns, and big hair, with tons of steamy scenes and
1:20.6	thrilling twists to boot.
1:23.0	I play an amateur bodybuilder named Jackie who is heading out to Vegas to pursue her dreams
1:30.0	of becoming a professional bodybuilder. That's Katie O'Brien.
1:33.8	She's my guest today and one of the stars of Love Lives Bleeding.
1:37.7	In the meantime, I kind of stop in a small town
1:41.1	and run into Kristen Stewart's character, Lou, who I fall instantly in love with.
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