Overview
- Olivia Wilde stars as Erika Tracy, an erotically charged artist whose persona blends provocative art references with narcissistic bravado.
- Cooper Hoffman plays Elliot, the younger assistant who becomes the focus of a complicated Dom/sub relationship that the film treats as both comic and unsettling.
- Araki says Erika functions as a quasi-autobiographical mouthpiece and that many of her lines reflect things he has said in interviews.
- The director swapped the original male-artist/female-assistant roles after #MeToo to avoid reproducing images of women being demeaned and to shift audience perspective on power and desire.
- I Want Your Sex opens in theaters on July 31, 2026 from Magnolia Pictures and Araki’s longer interview will appear later this summer on the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast.