Are You Lost, Baby Gorl?
Blanka Lipinska co-wrote one of the most controversial films to ever hit Netflix.
With the end of her trilogy here, shes hoping to win over her detractors.
In 2020, the Polisherotic thriller365 Dayspremiered on Netflix to outrage.
Its the same story.
says the 37-year-old, adding that both365 DaysandBeauty and the Beastshould be viewed as cautionary tales.
Small girls watch these cartoons and think, Oh my God, I want to be a princess.
I want to have a prince on the white horse.
(The fact that thefinal film is radically different than Lipinskas booklikely wont help her cause.)
I started a revolution in my country.
I say, I don’t give a fuck.
Below, Lipinska talks intimacy coordinators, her role in directingthe films sex scenes, and contemporary erotica.
Before365 Days, you were managing a nightclub.
Did you always want to be a writer?
I never said I am a writer.
If youre a writer, you feel this need inside of you to write.
I don’t feel that.
But the sex in the books was very weak.
It was for teenagers.
So I decided I would create my own story with good sex.
The book [I wrote stayed] in my computer for years.
My friends read it, friends of my friends, and all the girls said, Oh my God.
When will you publish the book?
But I didn’t feel comfortable showing people what was inside of Blanka Lipinska.
Then after three years I grew up and said, I don’t give a fuck.
What was it about contemporary erotica that you were so unimpressed by?
I was just tired of the language the writers used in the books.
Like when you have a dick, you have a dick.
Not a big piece of wood in his trousers.
Or [people would write] peach, not pussy.
Its not a peach!
Peach is a fucking fruit for your kitchen.
Your pussy is your pussy, your dick is a dick.
I also wanted to give woman a voice to talk about sex in their relationship.
365 Dayswas first introduced to American audiences as a movie.
How involved were you in the films production?
I decided about everything.
I also directed the sex scenes.
And let’s be honest.
[The sex scenes] are the value of that movie.
Because people love that it’s so real.
It’s not, but what we created [seemed] so real.
Walk me through directing that sequence.
From the beginning, I want to know my actors.
I spent weeks [with them].
I talked with him [and Anna-Maria Sieklucka, who plays Laura] very honestly about my sexual life.
We talked a lot about our sexual preferences, what we like, what we dont like.
Then it’s totally yours guys.
It’s a freestyle.
Show me what you got.
So they did it like three times and they exactly know what I want to see on the screen.
Even when [Michele] did that thing…
Spit on her vagina?
Because when we talked one day about all these things I said, Oh my God.
I love when a guy does that.
And he said, “Okay, I will do that for you.”
It’s super cool, because it’s funny for us to make it.
But on the screen it was so fucking sexy.
On the second and third films we had one.
When the first film came out, the internet was divided.
People loved it, but it got a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
It was Netflix’s most watched film, but people were calling for Netflix to remove it.
How did you handle the reaction?
When I published my book in Poland, it was the same.
It glorifies rapes, blah, blah, blah.
When you only read the first part, probably you have a right [to say that].
Despite all the fanfare and controversy, will you write another book?
Probably, because my fans really love that story and they want to know everything about that story.
So I decided to give them a book number four.
This story will be from the point of view of Massimo.
What was happening inside of Massimo when he met Laura?
When he kidnapped her?
The fans are very curious and I want to give them that story.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
This article was originally published onAug.
