Hilarie Burton Instagram – The sweetest man.
I played @valkilmerofficial ‘s girlfriend in a movie back in 2009. The script called for us to have a fairly rowdy love scene that got interrupted by a phone call. I’d just come off of OTH where I was always put in some kind of compromising position….so it was just work as usual.
But then I got to set the day we were going to be shooting that scene and there was a scramble happening. “Val wants to change the scene.”
Huh?
“It’s not interesting,” he said. A gratuitous sex scene with a younger woman didn’t service the story or the character. It said nothing about the relationship and why either of our characters were in it. Instead, Val sent someone out to a local restaurant to pick up a huge tub of ribs. And so, as the camera panned up from the floor, our moans were those of two people, comfortable and indulgent, tangled up in bed and unfettered by the mess, elbows deep in North Carolina’s finest bbq.
It was infinitely more interesting and I felt so safe and cared for by that man. It would have been easy to phone it in and just go with the stereotypical way women have been seen in film. Rather than the scene playing on my naked back, he turned me toward the camera. He made the scene about us instead of using me as a prop. That one day at work rewired my brain.
Val was kind to me. A thoughtful artist. I bought some of his paintings a few years back. I hope every young actor has a Val in their life. That movie was a magical experience.
#bloodworth | Posted on 02/Apr/2025 19:41:03
