How Lili Reinhart and The Love Hypothesis Director Lied About the “Juicy Sex Scene”

The Love Hypothesis, starring Lili Reinhart, has finally been released online, and it is even more disappointing than we thought. I knew the film wasn't erotic and the sex scene would be tamed, but watching it with my own eyes, it is just so heartbreaking.

The film is based on a book of the same name, which features explicit sex with multiple sex positions and sex acts that can't be replicated in the film. But it looks like the director, Claire Scanlon, didn't even try to give fans anything they could be excited about.

But whose fault is it? Was it Lili Reinhart, who didn't want to do it, or was it the director, who hates what men love? The answer to this is hidden in the interviews they gave leading up to the film's release.

Both the cast and production had promoted the film like they had filmed some wild scenes.

Lili Reinhart said back in August 2025 that the sex is not PG-13, and while it is true that the sex itself is very tame, it is not enjoyable to watch due to the camera angles used to hide her body.

In October 2025, she once again talked about the sex scenes and said it was the most intense sex scene of her career. She did mention that it's not Fifty Shades of Grey, but that the intensity and nakedness are there. She was obviously lying.

Later, she talked about how it was her and the director's decision to add a blink-and-you-miss-it nip-slip scene rather than full frontal. Then she talked about how it was important for the book fans to have a juicy sex scene.

Just a few weeks before the release of the film, she talked about how she pushed the sex scene to be as sexy as possible for the fans: “I really pushed to be as sexy as possible while still making sense in the movie.” But then she warned audiences not to expect Blue Is the Warmest Colour.

Then she said, “I was naked with someone in a room—actually, multiple people—for six hours.”

Claire Scanlon, the director, also talked about the sex scene to promote the film, saying how sexy it is in multiple interviews, and then she said she wanted the scene to be shot with a “female gaze.”

So yeah, this is how they promoted the film and kept lying to the fans, adding small hints in between that they fucked it up so they can later say, “We told you, it isn't explicit and it was shot with a female gaze.”

On the one hand, Lili said, “I wanted to go even further,” and then said it was her and the director's decision to add that stupid nip-slip scene, which doesn't even feel real.

This is nothing new. All these Hollywood actresses these days hype up sex scenes so they can get fans to watch their films, and then fans are left with nothing but disappointment.

A few names come to my mind. Gwyneth Paltrow hyped up the worst sex scene of her career in Marty Supreme in multiple interviews, and when the film actually released, there was nothing.

The stars of Bucking Fastard are also hyping up the threesome scene with Kate Mara, Rooney Mara, and Orlando Bloom, when in fact, there is nothing in it.

So this is how Hollywood plays with audiences these days. On the one hand, they say Gen Z hates sex, while on the other hand, they promote their films with lies.