Lifetime stuffs viewers stockings for the holidays with Christmas movie sex scene
'A Cowboy Christmas Romance' endorses the suggestion, "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy."
Lifetime is inviting its viewers to join the naughty list.
Though most holiday television movies which air on the likes of Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix, and more are fairly chaste, Lifetime is taking a new position and including a sex scene in forthcoming A Cowboy Christmas Romance. It marks the first ever sex scene in their annual holiday movie series, It's a Wonderful Lifetime — and we all know that there's nothing like your first time.
The movie, which premieres on the network on Dec. 9, follows real estate agent Lexie Crenshaw (Jana Kramer), a real estate agent who returns home to Arizona to reclaim land belonging to rancher Coby Mason (Adam Senn). But the land isn't the only thing Lexie wants to claim after meeting Coby and feeling a spark of attraction.
Sarah Drew (Grey's Anatomy) wrote the movie, and she and Kramer discussed the scene on Kramer's podcast Whine Down on Monday. "It's the first Christmas movie that has a sex scene," Kramer said. "I read it and I was like, 'Well, this is going to be interesting...Spoiler alert — he lays me down on some hay, and then we, you know. Obviously, it’s still Lifetime, it’s still family. But it was pushing limits there, too. They didn’t cut anything. I was so happy that they really left it all in there.”
Drew also commented, noting how pleased she is that Lifetime was game for leaving the scene in the film because to her it was a crucial part of the movie. "It all came out so beautifully, but especially the scene in the kitchen. I had written into the stage directions, ‘He pulls her up onto the counter, he shoves things off the table,’” Drew said. “I put it all in there, so I was like, ‘Don’t take the steam and the sex away from me. I wrote it on purpose, I want it in there.' How sad would that have been if that scene just got cut?"
Tia Maggini, SVP of scripted content at Lifetime, also addressed the spicy first for the network. "We think that there’s an audience out there that’s hungry for grown-up romance, and we’re looking forward to adding some smolder to the usual holiday sugar and spice,” she told Variety. “We love trying new things, and we’re excited about this new ‘first’ for us for a holiday movie.”
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