During a recent chat with The View host Joy Behar, Gossip Girl star Elizabeth Hurley addressed the tension concerning her son’s directing for her new movie, Strictly Confidential. The recent release contains sexual scenes for which her 22-year-old son, Damian Hurley, was behind the camera.
Behar grilled the 58-year-old mom about letting her son watch her in a sultry context. “There’s been a lot of talk about how Damian has directed you in this film, which he wrote…including some, how should we put it, hot scenes … with another woman, by the way,” the TV personality said.
Elizabeth Hurley says her son is “no pervert”
The mother of one responded to Behar by saying Damian doing a good job was what mattered most. “The important thing is that he was directing me in those scenes, not sneaking into my bedroom with a video camera,” Hurley retorted. “We were on a set, and they were grown-up.” Behar replied, “He’s a director, not a pervert.”
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Hurley added that she “felt really comfortable with Damian behind the camera.” “I felt really safe because I knew he’d really look out for me, look after me, both on the set, in the edit, in the post, and I felt for the first time actually ever doing a scene like that, I knew that he’d be true to what we knew we were shooting,” she explained.
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Damian shares his experience directing his mom
Behar soon turned to Damian, asking if Hurley was “easy to direct, or was it like, ‘Come on, kiss her harder.’” In line with his mom’s previous statement, the young boy echoed that he was more concerned about the scenes turning out great. “Our only thought, and everyone is making a massive deal about this, but our only thought at the time was it was one of nine scenes we were shooting that day, it was just, don’t lose the light, make the scene as beautiful as possible and go on,” he recalled.
He also added that the set was closed for intimate scenes, and they hardly considered anything awkward until later. “It wasn’t until now that we’re like, ‘Oh, should we have given that more thought?'” Damian added. Hurley earlier clarified that the movie— which also features Lauren McQueen and Genevieve Gaunt did not contain “any nudity.”
“People are making a lot of fuss. Nobody’s exploited at all. We all felt comfortable doing it,” she told PEOPLE.