Susie Bright's Sex Consultant to the Stars: Her Consultation for "Bound" by The Wachowski's

Susie Bright's Sex Consultant to the Stars: Her Consultation for the film "Bound" by The Wachowski's

First, I sent Larry and Andy a picture from the cover of the book I was working on, “Nothing But the Girl”, about lesbian erotic photography.

When I first met Gina [Gershon], I carried the same picture in my hand: a beautiful butch woman sitting a la Rodin’s “Thinker”, tattooed and muscled with a cowlick like Elvis’, but with all the shadows and soft curves of a woman’s figure. The model’s name was Ronny, but when I sent the picture to the filmmaker’s, I said, “This is your Corky”.

Corky’s character is a revelation in Hollywood cinema, because it is the first time since the days of Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo that female masculinity has been eroticized. Usually when
we see a woman who looks like a “dyke’ , a mannish woman, she’s the psychopath, the social misfit , the pathetic creepy person who there’s no hope left for.

She’s the prison warden, the weird jock, the brutal nurse, the fucked-up punk.

When have we seen a gorgeous woman of our generation on screen who moved like Jimmy Dean, sulked like a young Brando, drew a bead on you like Eastwood? Corky had to be the kind of woman that everyone in the theater would be dying to go to bed with, and she had to do it without acting the least bit like a girly-girl.

Violet [Jennifer Tilly], on the other hand, couldn’t just be any straight girl on the drift. She had to be a femme queen, as calculating and sensual as a cat; a woman who’s lost a bit of her soul fucking men for money, but who knows exactly what kind of touch she needs to find redemption.

Most of all, and this was the part that cracked the cliché about dangerous femme fatales--she had to be a dangerous femme you could count on---whether it was getting you off or getting you out of a jam.

The Wachowskis had the character and dialog ready to roll in their script, it was just a matter of how to keep...MORE

Susie Bright's Sex Consultant to the Stars: Her Consultation for the film "Bound" by The Wachowski's