Director cuts nudity from 'One Night Only' after test screenings

Director Will Gluck has revealed that he significantly reduced the amount of nudity in his new romantic comedy, "One Night Only," after test screenings indicated audiences were uncomfortable with explicit sex scenes on the big screen. The film, which stars Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner, is set in a dystopian United States where premarital sex is illegal for 364 days a year, leaving a single 12-hour window for single people to engage in intimacy.

In a recent interview, Gluck explained that he studied data suggesting younger generations, specifically Gen Z and Gen Alpha, are less comfortable viewing sex on screen. "I cut out so much," he said. "There was so much nudity in this movie that we shot on the streets." The director noted that during test screenings, the presence of explicit scenes would physically pull viewers out of the story. "You're engaged in the characters and what's going on, and then you pan over and there's two naked people having sex, and you watch the audience-it's a physical thing," he described. He theorized that constant exposure to such content on personal devices has made nudity a more private experience that people do not want to share in a public...