‘BUNNY’ TALK GETS ’EM HOPPIN’ MAD — Bill Paxton and Chloe Sevigny have no trouble talking about the new HBO show “Big Love,” which concerns a Mormon husband and his three wives. But discussion of an ordinary couple engaging in oral sex is apparently off-limits.
We hear Paxton and Sevigny went ballistic yesterday on the set of “The View” when co-host Joy Behar brought up that infamous scene in the indie flick “Brown Bunny” where Sevigny pleasures Vincent Gallo.
Though the actors masked their fury from viewers, Paxton is said to have exploded off-camera. According to one source, he even vowed never to appear on the show again.
Sevigny has frequently discussed the scene from the controversial 2003 film, but Paxton apparently didn’t want her to have to relive it on a daytime talk show.
One insider notes, “The View” is “a show that is broadcast to housewives all over Middle America. [Oral sex] isn’t the kind of thing you talk about.”
East Coast viewers got to watch the cast squirm in their seats. But all talk of oral gratification was excised from the West Coast feed.
“Co-host Joy Behar is known for her good-natured candor, as well as her humor, and meant no disrespect,” said “View” spokesman Karl Nilsson. Nilsson refused to say who asked that the “Brown Bunny” conversation be edited out.
With all due respect to Paxton, it’s the job of the talk show circuit to create excitement and interest in their guests and their guests’ films, and if the most exciting and interesting thing Chloë has done recently is star in The Brown Bunny, she can hardly complain. If she manages to outshine her Brown Bunny notoriety with Big Love, she’ll be able to look forward to fielding endless polygamy questions when next she has to promote a film. Until then, she’ll just have to suck it up with The Brown Bunny.
