The Big Bang Theory co-star Melissa Rauch’s new film The Bronze kicked off this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and while audience gave the film positive reviews, executives are not sure it has commercial appeal. The comedy reportedly raised a lot of eyebrows in Park City after it featured one of the raunchiest sequences in movie history, with a sex scene that bizarrely involved cartwheels, pirouettes, and even pole vaults.
The Bronze follows a former Olympic gymnast played by Rauch, who spent the ten years after winning her bronze model drinking, smoking pot and avoiding responsibility. She is awful to nearly everyone in her life, up until a series of events forces her to coach a promising young gymnast and decide whether or not she cares about anyone but herself and her former sense of glory.
Rauch and her husband Winston co-wrote the film, and she explained at Sundance that she relates to her character Hope because they both received special treatment during the high points of their career, but the public allowed them to fade into obscurity the second they stopped being relevant. Rauch admitted that her hometown used to give her free Wetzel’s Pretzels whenever she was on a television show, only to have the honor retracted once the program went off the air.
During the questions and answers section following the screening of The Bronze, it became apparent that the audience and media wanted to hear more about the incredibly raunchy “gymnastics sex” featured in the film.
“As for the sex scene, you write what you know,” joked Rauch, with her husband adding that the scene gave the couple a chance to “show you what we do in our bedroom.”
“Right after this there’s going to be an audition for the sex scene in the sequel,” joked director Bryan Buckley.
Rauch admitted that she wasn’t actually involved in the carnal acrobatics, as the gymnastics were all left up to her body double.
“My body never looked better thanks to her,” she said.
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