Judge Reinhold is opening up about filming the infamous masturbation scene in 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' and how he ultimately 'just went with it.'
The actor told 'Vanity Fair' that he "just went with it" when it came time to shoot the scene for the 1982 classicBrenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Brenton's work has previously appeared in Billboard, Pigeons & Planes and Complex.was"one of maybe the dumbest and one of the bravest things I’ve ever done."
"If you take that scene out of context, it’s kind of creepy," he said of the scene — in which his character of Brad Hamilton pleasures himself while thinking of’ character ."But to me, it was very funny when I read the script, because it was just a matter of how much more can he endure?" "Obviously it was simulated, but it was an extremely personal thing, and it was just humiliating," Reinhold recalled. "At one point, we’d done a few takes where she catches me, and I said, 'I’ve got to go. I just had to get out.' Amy followed me, and I remember she said, 'Look, it’s a love scene — only it’s with yourself.' "Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock"I just remember that so vividly on the sidewalk. We were laughing.
"When I read the script, I thought it was just so funny. But when it came time that day…. I don’t know how it was for Phoebe," he said. "I think we were both awkward ... The audience doesn’t realize it, nor should they have to think about it, but it’s not easy, that stuff. I just went with it.
"Amy was in the room, and Carrie was in the room — my girlfriend — and I had to pretend like I was meeting them for the first time. I read for it several times, and then, as if I wasn’t in the room, Art looked at me and says, 'Look at him, he’s as old as Ed Asner!' I was 23. I could tell that my fate was being decided right then."
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