Happy Birthday: Mary Harron

Mary Harron

Born: January 12, 1953 in Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada

Married to: John Walsh (15 August 1998 – present) (2 children)

There’s a scene in American Psycho (2000) that, to me, was a real dividing line between male and female, the scene where “Bateman” [Christian Bale] has sex with two prostitutes. Because when I read that scene in the book, clearly it was written as a parody of a Penthouse fantasy. As written, the girls are really hot and everybody’s really into the sex and having this insane sex experience and, of course, that’s a fantasy — you know that they’re prostitutes and they’re not getting into it. It’s a job. So my direction to the actors, to the girls, was that this is routine. This is a job you have to do. It’s not like you’re really excited about this. I think the portrayal of prostitution in Hollywood movies is always so ludicrous. The girls are always dressed in designer clothes and they’re always gorgeous and have perfect skin and they’re always really getting into it.

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