\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t![\"Channing](\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/b42192e41f0be186733ee0c8a15c6571a12d1d1d652d9055b41140d3424ce461.jpg?w=1000\")
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChanning Tatum, from left, Mason Reeves, and Gemma Chan attend the premiere of “Josephine” during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, at Eccles Center in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello)<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s the story of their affairs and the impact it has on this kid\u2019s life and how it kind of turns his whole world upside down,\u201d Araki told The Associated Press. \u201cIt\u2019s fun, it\u2019s colorful, it\u2019s sexy. And it\u2019s a ride.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a film that Araki has been working on for over 10 years, as it evolved from a comic \u201cFifty Shades of Grey\u201d with a female intern to what it is now.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter #MeToo and Harvey Weinstein, all the stuff that was going on, it was literally like, I don\u2019t really want to see a woman getting dragged around by the hair,\u201d Araki said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to seed that kind of patriarchal dynamic, even if it\u2019s consensual.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flipping the gender roles and making the young intern a man made the movie more interesting for Araki, \u201cas a filmmaker who has always been heavily influenced by feminist film theory and feminism in general,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
At the same time, he was absorbing news stories about Gen Z and how they don\u2019t have sex or relationships anymore and a new dynamic emerged.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I knew as an old person, as an old-timer, in terms of socialization, dating, sex, all of this stuff that seemed to be kind of falling away,\u201d Araki said. \u201cAnd so that kind of became a major theme of the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Things Wilde\u2019s character says are things he has also said in interviews about sex and sexuality. Her character gets into generational debates about it. And ultimately it\u2019s sex positive.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very important to me to make something sex positive,\u201d Araki said. \u201c\u2019I Want Your Sex\u2019 is like the opposite of \u2018Babygirl,\u2019 which I found to be very sex negative.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film also features a supporting turn from Charli xcx, who was a fan of Araki and whose \u201cBrat\u201d album cover was partially inspired by the title credits to his film \u201cSmiley Face.\u201d When she heard about this new movie, he said, she asked if she could be in it. He was interested, but told her agent that she needed to do a self-tape \u201clike everyone else\u201d to play the part of Hoffman\u2019s girlfriend.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe character is not her. That\u2019s what\u2019s so fun,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019s American, she\u2019s super uptight and kind of pill.\u201d<\/p>\n
She filmed her scenes in one day, on a two-day break in the middle of her Brat tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to give it away, but she\u2019s in one of my favorite scenes in the whole movie where her and Cooper\u2019s character are having kind of bad sex,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Those who stick around at the Eccles after \u201cI Want Your Sex\u201d will get a Charli xcx double feature, with the world premiere of her self-referential mockumentary \u201cThe Moment,\u201d about a rising pop star, before it hits theaters on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n
Earlier Friday, the world premiere of William David Caballero\u2019s mixed-media film \u201cTheyDream\u201d immersed viewers in the intimate story of a Puerto Rican family learning to process grief through art. Caballero and cowriter Elaine Del Valle have screened short films at Sundance in the past but were honored to bring a full-length feature to the festival.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSundance has always been about possibility for me \u2014 about artists being given space to take creative risks and tell personal stories,\u201d Del Valle, who is also a producer on the film, told the AP. \u201cBringing our first feature, especially in Sundance\u2019s final year in Utah, carries a different weight.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Associated Press writer Hannah Schoenbaum contributed to this story.<\/p>\n
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For more coverage of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, visit: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sundance-film-festival<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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