{"id":25799,"date":"2026-08-03T04:12:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=25799"},"modified":"2026-08-03T04:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:12:42","slug":"gregg-araki-found-ai-useful-for-editing-this-i-want-your-sex-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=25799","title":{"rendered":"Gregg Araki Found AI Useful For Editing This &#8216;I Want Your Sex&#8217; Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith his first movie in more than a decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/gregg-araki\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gregg-araki\" data-tag=\"gregg-araki\">Gregg Araki<\/a> found himself working in a whole new era of Hollywood to bring <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/i-want-your-sex\/\" id=\"auto-tag_i-want-your-sex\" data-tag=\"i-want-your-sex\">I Want Your Sex<\/a><\/em> to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDiscussing his new erotic comedy thriller, now playing in theaters, the co-writer and director explained to Deadline how <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ai\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ai\" data-tag=\"ai\">AI<\/a> tools were particularly useful in post-production on one scene of dialogue filmed with stars Cooper Hoffman and Chase Sui Wonders on a mini golf course next to a freeway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cFor me, one of the coolest things is the technology is so advanced now and it really makes it so filmmaker friendly,\u201d he explained. \u201cI remember talking to Rick Linklater about this; back in the old days, when I was making <em>Three Bewildered People<\/em> [<em>in the Night<\/em>] and he was making <em>Slacker<\/em>, it was really just fucking hard to make a movie, just technically hard with 60 millimeter and loading magazines and torn sprocket holes and tape slices, and all of the stuff that we had to go through. You had to be kind of a crazy obsessive person to even try to make a movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAraki continued, \u201cWhereas now, with the technology and the crazy sensitive cameras and iPhones and all of the software, all the things you can do\u2014I\u2019m not a big supporter of AI in terms of replacing actors and writers, but in terms of the tools you can do in post, there\u2019s stuff that we did in <em>I Want Your Sex<\/em>. We shot that entire mini golf scene literally next to a freeway. It\u2019s so loud in the rough cuts and stuff, but with tools that are available now in post, it\u2019s like you can hear crickets whenever we\u2019re mixing it. It was literally insane the way these things can work, and the same with the editing stuff, it\u2019s amazing. The effects, all that stuff is really being kind of revolutionized in a way that makes all of that stuff accessible to indie lower budget filmmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith the success of indie films like <em>Obsession<\/em> serving \u201cshocks to the system\u201d of a big-budget, IP-driven industry, Araki is \u201cexcited for the future\u201d of Hollywood.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:683px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((1024\/683)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg 2334w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=100,150 100w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=200,300 200w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=683,1024 683w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=1024,1536 1024w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=1366,2048 1366w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=67,100 67w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=40,60 40w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=312,468 312w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=150,225 150w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=110,165 110w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=285,428 285w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=160,240 160w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=320,480 320w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=640,960 640w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=400,600 400w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=800,1200 800w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=512,768 512w, https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12.jpg?resize=1280,1920 1280w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" height=\"1024\" width=\"683\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\" lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-font-size-14@mobile-max lrv-a-font-body-m u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-font-family-primary u-line-height-20 u-letter-spacing-0 u-line-height-18@mobile-max\">Co-writer\/director Gregg Araki on the set of \u2018I Want Your Sex\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s just crazy times, everything\u2019s so upside down. And for indie film too, it\u2019s really hard to get distribution. It\u2019s hard to get indie film finance, but it\u2019s always been hard, so it\u2019s always a struggle, different struggles,\u201d explained Araki. \u201cI\u2019m personally kind of excited for the future, I think. I do think that a lot of the old formulas aren\u2019t really working anymore. I think Hollywood\u2019s really sort of scrambling\u2014it\u2019s kind of like the Titanic, people just kind of running around. So, the rules are really being rewritten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCo-written by Araki and Karley Sciortino, <em>I Want Your Sex<\/em> stars Olivia Wilde as dominatrix Erika Tracy, an artist and provocateur who enlists her assistant Elliot (Hoffman) as her sexual submissive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his first movie in more than a decade, Gregg Araki found himself working in a whole new era of Hollywood to bring I Want Your Sex to the big screen. 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