Elizabeth Hurley has revealed both she and her son Damian felt ‘very comfortable’ filming his new racy film Strictly Confidential, as being a single parent brought them close together.
The mother-son duo made headlines earlier this year following the release of Damian’s directorial debut – which saw the actress, 58, engage in a steamy lesbian sex scene with her 28-year-old costar Pear Chiravara.
The controversial thriller was ultimately savaged by critics who described it as a ‘horrendous drama’ which played out like a ‘daytime soap opera.’
Now, speaking to Abbey Clancy on her podcast Exhibit A, Elizabeth, 58, said: ‘I get why people are like “how can you work together you two and particularly in the scenes you’re shooting?”
‘We don’t have that relationship, you know I came from a much bigger family, mum, dad, two siblings but Damian’s only ever had me and I’ve only ever had Damian.’
Elizabeth Hurley has revealed both she and her son Damian felt ‘very comfortable’ filming his new racy film Strictly Confidential, as being a single parent brought them close together
The mother-son duo made headlines earlier this year following the release of Damian’s directorial debut – which saw the actress, 58, engage in a steamy lesbian sex scene with her 28-year-old costar Pear Chiravara
Damian, 22, previously told The Times: ‘I hate to say that it felt totally normal. I don’t know what that says about us.’
Damian also revealed there were no intimacy coordinators on set because ‘everyone was very comfortable’.
He added to Abbey: ‘I think when you’re a single parent single child, the facade of I’m the parent you’re the child you’re going to do what I say kind of goes, you can’t sulk off in a gang of kids, or sulk off in a gang of parents, you’d be alone.’
Elizabeth continued: ‘We’ve had a short hand and a closeness which is very different to how I had my parents and I love my parents.
‘The idea of having them at work with me would have been horrific, I could never have stood it but we just don’t have that no we’re like little twin souls in some ways and it works really well.’
Damian added: ‘I don’t think she has ever been cast in a sexier part at this point in her career.’
It comes after Elizabeth revealed she is planning to team up for another movie with her son Damian – but this time she won’t be in front of the camera.
But, in a new interview, Damian revealed his mother is already on board with his next feature, albeit as a producer, as Elizabeth hit back at the reaction to her racy scenes.
‘I have the next script written…It’s a movie we are putting together now,’ Damian, 22, told Social Life magazine.
Now, speaking to Abbey Clancy on her podcast Exhibit A , Elizabeth, 58, said: ‘I get why people are like “how can you work together you two and particularly in the scenes you’re shooting?”
It comes after Elizabeth revealed she is planning to team up for another movie with her son Damian – but this time she won’t be in front of the camera
Elizabeth quickly interjected: ‘I won’t be in this one. I will be a producer on it, though.’
In Damian’s directorial debut, Elizabeth plays a mother called Lily who welcomes her daughter’s friends to her Caribbean estate the year after the mysterious deaths of her daughter and her husband.
A number of secrets are revealed during the trip, including Lily’s love affair with her daughter’s female friend.
Of the steamy scene between the pair, Elizabeth previously told TooFab: ‘Well, it was a very important part of storytelling, when Mia, our protagonist, is on this quest to find out why her best friend [Elizabeth’s character’s daughter] killed herself.
‘It was so integral to [the storytelling] that the actual physical filming of it wasn’t even something we talked about really. We just knew that the impact it would have on the story and the rest was just our job.’
She insisted the scene is not simply included for shock value, adding she always stays away from movies that have salacious moments to stun the audience.
Speaking to Social Life Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Devorah Rose for the Memorial Day Cover Story, Elizabeth explained that the scene was nowhere near as scandalous as it seemed.
‘Damian had this idea that you can make something so sensual and interesting without actually having nudity, and not a lot of people would have thought of that,’ the Bedazzled star stated.
‘There has been so much hoo-ha about these scenes. But actually, there’s nothing gratuitous in it — no gratuitous nudity whatsoever — and I really appreciated that.’
Damian added: ‘I think there is definitely a time and place for nudity in film, but I’ve actually never liked it in sex scenes. I think it’s so much more effective to have someone nude walking around having coffee in the morning in a scene.
‘I just don’t like toplessness for the sake of toplessness or nudity for the sake of nudity when it doesn’t need to be there.’
Elizabeth, whose film credits include Austin Powers and Bedazzled, appeared to criticize bad fathers as she praised her son for swapping gender roles in Strictly Confidential.
Damian switched the plot so that the father died and the wife was left.
‘Well, it’s quite an interesting thing when you change the gender of the role because it changes everything,’ Elizabeth said. ‘One of the most significant things that changed is that somehow it was more wounding for the mother to be the one betraying her daughter’s trust.
‘Damian gave me a great part, because it’s a fresh thing to see. I don’t want to see a dad behaving badly ever again — in real life or in fiction.’
Elizabeth praised her son’s vision for the film: ‘Damian had this idea that you can make something so sensual and interesting without actually having nudity’
Their next project will not see the young filmmaker directing his mother as she confirmed she will only be involved behind the scenes as a producer
Elizabeth conceived her only child during a short-lived relationship with American film producer Steve Bing, not long after she split from Hugh Grant in 2000.
She gave birth to Damian in 2002 but the businessman contested paternity, claiming they had been in a non-exclusive relationship at the time.
Although a DNA test proved that Steve was Damian’s father, he did not become part of his life and they are thought to have never even met.
The businessman died in 2020 when he jumped from the 27th floor of his Los Angeles apartment building.
Strictly Confidential is available to stream on digital platforms
