The true onus of that scene falls way more on Faye Dunaway than William Holden. He doesn't speak a single line of dialogue in the whole thing. He just kisses her, takes off his clothes, and lies down in bed. She has to do all of that plus rattle off 197 words of television jargon and have an orgasm within the span of 110 seconds. It's a relentless scene, and Dunaway knew what a challenge it was going to be. As recounted in the book "Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies" by Dave Itzkoff, Dunaway said of the love scene:
"There is not a second of it when the dialogue stops ... The speed of it parallels the rhythm of their lovemaking ... I could not afford to stumble on a single word; it would have killed the momentum of the scene. It was the exact opposite of 'sex as chess.'"
The anxiety about it got to a point where she, according to producer Howard Gottfried, said, "I'm not going to do that scene. I don't have to do it," which she had the power to kibosh because the scene required nudity that he claims she didn't want to do.
While she admits to the dialogue struggle, Dunaway disputes she had any trepidation about the actual sex. It was actually William Holden who resisted it, saying, "He had a strongly held belief that making love was a private thing that should not be exposed by film." As Holden was a Republican nearing 60 that emerged in Hollywood's Golden Age, he was not accustomed to outright sex on screen. Dunaway was no stranger to it. Whatever their fears, both actors pushed them aside and created a stunning and hilarious movie moment that perfectly tees up the tonal whiplash of the next scene in which Beatrice Strait delivers a one-scene powerhouse dramatic performance that wins her an Oscar.
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