Cooper Hoffman & Chase Sui Wonders on Having a Threesome With Olivia Wilde in I Want Your Sex | Interview
I Want Your Sex stars Cooper Hoffman and Chase Sui Wonders had a wild time filming Gregg Araki’s sex comedy movie. The duo spoke with ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese about having a threesome with Olivia Wilde in the film, their wild sex scenes, and more. It’s out in theaters on July 31, 2026.
“When fresh-faced Elliot (Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey more profound than he ever could have imagined, into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder,” says the official synopsis.
Tyler Treese: Cooper, this is a very brave performance by you. You really put yourself out there. You’re being spanked, demeaned in a fun way, and calling yourself a whore. This is going to make for some wild social media. Some of these clips are going to go viral. Can you speak to just going for it, being terrified, and pushing through to do these outrageous sex scenes in the film?
Cooper Hoffman: A lot of the reason I wanted to do the movie was because of how scary it made me feel. To have the opportunity to do a Gregg Araki movie with all of the spanking, pegging, and calling yourself a whore and a slut—I don’t get to do that very often.
To get to do that in a safe space for a piece of art with a director that I really love is awesome. I love that I got to do that. Then all the stuff that comes afterward, let’s see what comes of it. But I’m excited.
Do it for the bit.
Chase Sui Wonders: To glaze Cooper for a second, I do think a lot of actors would be very fearful to take on something like this. But I feel like Cooper is both comfortable in his masculinity, dare I say…
Hoffman: Dare you say? You said it.
Wonders: I dare. He’s also a very talented actor. A lot of people would shy away from something like this, but you took it on.
Chase, just like when I joined this call, you and Cooper really feel like best friends in this film. How was it working with him and making it feel like they had this deep, long-held connection?
Wonders: Thank you. I appreciate that. That’s just good acting. I can’t stand this guy.
No, we became very fast friends. It helped that our first scene was a threesome scene, so we kind of had no choice but to be like, “Are we good? We’re going to be good, right?”
We reverse-engineered our friendship from there.
Hoffman: Chase also came in at such a pivotal point, which was all of the sex stuff and the mansion scene we had to do. I felt like I had to keep it cool around Olivia and Gregg and not have any freak-out moments.
I really leaned on Chase. There was a moment where I was like, “This is fucking nuts.” I’m in my underwear. Pink hair.
Wonders: We were like, “What are we doing here?”
Hoffman: We have the most beautiful woman ever starring in this movie, and we have to have a three-way with her. It was a really funny experience. To share it with someone I’m still so close with is huge.
Cooper, this is such an awkward movie to talk about, but there’s a scene where you’re getting a dildo inserted where the sun doesn’t shine, and it just zooms in on your face. How do you even begin coming up with those reactions and trying to blend pleasure with being uncomfortable? How do you approach that?
Cooper Hoffman: Ty, these are good questions. Honestly, I’m going to chalk a lot of it up to Yehuda [Duenyas], who was our intimacy coordinator.
Chase Sui Wonders: He was explaining what a taint was and the mechanism of the male G-spot…
Hoffman: He would literally explain what getting pegged felt like. It was incredible because he went into it with so much detail, and he was so sincere about it.
Watching it back is kind of hilarious, but in the moment I was like, “Yeah, okay. So when he enters me…” We had a serious conversation about it. It was really nice to have someone on set you could go to for very specific questions like, “What am I supposed to be feeling in this moment?”
If that’s not the magic of filmmaking, I don’t know what is. That was a wonderful story about a very awkward scene.
Chase, it was mentioned that your very first scene was the threesome with Olivia Wilde. One of the elements I liked about that scene is the real awkwardness of these friends interacting like that for the first time. You see some pent-up feelings. How was it letting all that emotion out, especially when that was your first big scene to film?
Wonders: I think it helped that it was the first scene because all these expectations of what you’re about to do on a new job build up. The fact that it was right out of the gate helped.
Olivia had the way harder job. It’s an inherently awkward scenario walking onto a set with strangers and then having to strip down, disrobe, floss with a dildo on your chest, and be totally cool, calm, collected, and jaded. Cooper and I had to be freaked out and frazzled, so as an actor I was just feeding into those emotions of, “What the hell is going on?”
That’s where my character lived. I was also trying to figure out Apple’s pent-up feelings. She doesn’t know if she’s in love with her best friend, who’s also her roommate. She doesn’t know if she might be gay. She doesn’t even know how to contextualize herself. She knows nothing about nothing. She has no idea what is good.
Hoffman: Neither does Elliot.
Wonders: Neither does Elliot. So you just feed into that. I’ve felt like that at various points in my life. I still do, if I may say.
Hoffman: Still do.
Cooper, this gets brought up in the film, but Gen Z isn’t very comfortable with sex, and there’s even been a debate about its place in film and art. Do you think we’re moving on from that attitude and that films like this are helping open up the idea that sex is a part of art and can be explored in interesting ways?
Cooper Hoffman: Chase and I are trying to figure out if we’re defending our generation with sex.
I’m not going to speak for a generation, but I think we’re all trying to figure it out. There’s a new form of freedom with technology, phones, and the internet. There’s this whole new vastness that we’re still trying to grasp and figure out how to control when we kind of can’t.
I think it’s more a fear of, “How do I grasp all of this at once?” You just can’t. Maybe the pendulum is swinging, and maybe it will swing back toward looking inward and asking, “What do I need? What kind of relationship do I want? What kind of sexual experience do I want?”
That’s one of the nice things about the Elliot and Erika dynamic. She tells him what to want and what to have, and that’s so freeing for him.
As for movies, there are still a few directors who do a really good job portraying sex. But we’re also in a time where we’re trying to figure out what our generation wants to say about things. We’re throwing things at the wall. Some of it sticks. Some of it doesn’t.
Chase Sui Wonders: I think everyone has their own journey with it. Some people are really prudish and never have sex.
Hoffman: It’s person to person.
Wonders: It’s person to person and generation to generation. One thing that’s true is that our generation has been exposed to a lot because of the internet. In previous generations, you couldn’t find porn unless you snuck into the back of an X-rated video shop. That’s a difference. You had to go experience those things yourself if you were curious. You couldn’t just sit alone in your room and watch a bunch of porn.
Hoffman: Yeah, yeah.
Wonders: Not that I would ever do that.
Hoffman: No, not that Chase is doing that. Ty, relax.
Wonders: Hang on.
Hoffman: That’s not what’s happening.
Wonders: Hold your tongue.
It’s definitely a big generational shift. Even people my age were wandering into Lemon Party and Goatse online. There was some crazy stuff.
Hoffman: What is that?
You don’t want to know. Don’t Google that.
Wonders: We’ll chat offline. You’ll get our numbers.
Hoffman: That’s hilarious. Send us links.
Chase, Gregg Araki is such a legend. What was your biggest takeaway from seeing how he conducts his sets and allows actors to find their characters?
Wonders: The biggest takeaway is that, on paper, this is a sex movie. But when you get deeper than that, and when you have Gregg at the helm, you really have a vulnerable coming-of-age rom-com where all these characters are exploring deep questions of identity. Gregg is always finding the humanity in that.
When we did the threesome scene, Gregg came over and gave me this whole lecture about who Apple was and how she’d been living with her best friend while having all these confusing feelings about her sexuality, her emotions, sex, and her relationship to it.
It’s really emotional at the end of the day, and that’s what makes it so complex. All of Gregg’s movies make me cry. Even though they’re fun, poppy movies, this one included, you laugh, and you cry. That’s a testament to him finding the really deep, universal nuances of these loud, in-your-face characters. At the heart of it, there’s a big truth.
Thanks to Cooper Hoffman and Chase Sui Wonders for taking the time to talk about I Want Your Sex.
Source: Comingsoon.net