London
(ANI):
Canadian
filmmaker
Vincenzo
Natali
took
French
help
to
fund
his
new
horror
flick
Splice
after
Hollywood
studios
refused
to
direct
a
sex
scene
between
Adrien
Brody
and
a
creature
his
character
creates.
Natali,
41,
says
the
idea
of
watching
Brody
sleep
with
a
half-woman,
half-creature,
played
by
French
actress
Delphine
Chaneac,
was
a
big
turn
off
for
American
studio
bosses.
He
said:
"That
scene
was
the
reason
I
wanted
to
make
the
film
and
that's
why
it's
such
a
miracle
this
film
exists.
No
studio
wanted
to
make
it,
because
of
(the)
sexual
part
of
the
story.
So
we
had
to
go
to
France.
And
the
French,
of
course,
had
no
problem
with
it."
Natali
also
revealed
the
reason
for
casting
Chaneac
in
the
movie.
"I
felt
she
had
an
androgynous
quality.
I
didn't
want
to
make
Dren
overtly
sexual.
I
wanted
people
to
fall
in
love
with
her
rather
than
in
lust.
Also,
I
feel
like
an
androgynous
beauty
is
perhaps
a
little
more
evolved.
Like
David
Bowie
is
maybe
more
evolved
than
the
rest
of
us," the
Daily
Express
quoted
him,
as
telling
Entertainment
Weekly
mag.
He
added:
"I
really
think
that
Dren
is
an
object
of
desire,
but
not
in
the
most
obvious
sense."