Rob Lowe on 'About Last Night' sex scenes: 'They're not a hall pass'

About Last Night came out exactly 35 years ago, and three-plus decades have given Rob Lowe an interesting perspective on the sheer volume of sex scenes he shared with co-star Demi Moore.

"In those days, there was a sex scene in every movie," Lowe told Yahoo Entertainment. "Every script I used to get, I would go to page 73, because that always was where the sex scene was! It didn't matter if it was a movie about priests and nuns, on page 73 there was going to be a sex scene. Today, you'd watch 17 movies and never see people with their clothes off unless [the movie] is about that."

And maybe the uninhibited nature of About Last Night came off as fun, but filming so many rendezvous was not.

"[Sex scenes are] not fun," the 57-year-old Emmy nominee added. "They're not a hall pass, as much as you would like it to be. They're very technical, and usually, very boring. I don't know if you've had to kiss anybody for eight hours straight—it's not fun! It's not all your bargain for."

Lowe's recollection had nothing to do with his scene partner, as he was "really, really glad" it was Moore because of the familiarity and friendship they had built through St. Elmo's Fire (1985).

About Last Night, a 1986 film adaptation of David Mamet's 1974 play, hinged on Danny (Lowe) and Debbie's (Moore) fraught love affair despite disapproval from their best friends, Bernie (Jim Belushi) and Joan (Elizabeth Perkins), who would rather they continue living the single life together.