Steven Soderbergh calls out superhero movies for their lack of sex

If you’ve ever wanted Steven Soderbergh to direct a superhero movie, you might be disappointed. While speaking with The Daily Beast, Steven Soderbergh said that he has one issue with superhero movies — nobody’s f**king!

Although characters in superhero movies certainly have romantic relationships, it’s safe to say that sex isn’t a big aspect of those movies, and that’s something Steven Soderbergh can’t wrap his head around. “For me to understand the world and how to write or supervise the writing of the story and the characters—apart from the fact that I can bend time and defy gravity and shoot beams out of my fingers—there’s no f**king,” Soderbergh said. “Nobody’s f**king! Like, I don’t know how to tell people how to behave in a world in which that is not a thing.” The director made sure to note that he’s not a snob and doesn’t feel as though superhero movies are “lower tier” in any way, it’s just not a world he can see himself working in.

It really becomes about what universe you occupy as a storyteller. I’m just too earthbound to really release myself to a universe in which Newtonian physics don’t exist [laughs]. I just have a lack of imagination in that regard, which is why the one foray I had into pure science-fiction [2002’s Solaris]was essentially a character drama that happened to be set on a spaceship.

“If people want to go experience that universe, that’s fine,” Soderbergh said. “As a filmmaker, I just don’t know where to start.” After over a decade, the very first sex scene in the Marvel Cinematic Universe arrived with Eternals and it had all the passion of a dry sponge. Steven Soderbergh’s next movie is Kimi, a thriller starring Zoë Kravitz as agoraphobic tech worker who discovers evidence of a violent crime while reviewing a data stream and is met with resistance and bureaucracy when she tries reporting it to her company. Kimi will debut on HBO Max on February 10th.