In the middle of the night, Valmont enters her room and molests her despite her desperate pleas for him to stop. It’s an agonizingly uncomfortable moment onstage: The lecherous Le Vicomte de Valmont, an affluent bachelor (played by Liev Schreiber) who entertains himself by taking advantage of women, seduces 15-year-old Cécile Volanges.While Cécile (played by Elena Kampouris) is visiting his aunt, Valmont convinces Cécile to let him make a copy of the key to her room, promising to mail her secret letters to a suitor. In the new Broadway revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses — a play that inspired movies like Dangerous Liaisons, Valmont, and Cruel Intentions — one graphic scene could be considered rape. 'Win or die.' The villainess-heroine of Pierre Choderlos. I've distilled everything to one single principle,' declares the Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
“We had a big fight with John Malkovich about it because he didn’t want us to cut it,” Hampton said. “In 18th-century terms, it’s slightly more complicated than that because you could argue that actually seeing that she’s being married off nonconsensually, her loss of virginity is only ever going to be a nonconsensual loss of it.”The show’s playwright, Christopher Hampton, who also wrote the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons, explained the same scene was cut from the movie. “I think in modern terms it is, because it’s nonconsensual,” she said. I think whenever a woman says no and a man moves forward, we should consider that rape.”Director Josie Rourke noted that the play, based on a book written in 1872, is set in 18th-century France. “She asks him not to, and he does. Cécile eventually relents and enjoys this “sexual awakening.”So is this rape? “I think so,” Schreiber told the Cut at the play’s opening-night after-party.
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