Meanwhile, network information outstripped print and radio to actually carry the chaos of the '60s into our residing rooms. A draft version of the Act, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill (Bill no. Three of 2023), generated international information coverage upon its first profitable passage by way of the parliament. Guccione said Brass shot enough film to "make the original model of Ben-Hur about 50 occasions over". Guccione cast Penthouse Pets as feminine extras in sexual scenes. The brand new unsimulated intercourse scenes included Penthouse pets Anneka Di Lorenzo and Lori Wagner, who appeared as supporting characters in Brass's authentic footage. Brass decided to not focus much on Danilo Donati's elaborate sets, and deliberately saved the Penthouse Pets within the background during intercourse scenes, typically not filming them at all. Guccione was concerned that Vidal's script contained a number of gay intercourse scenes and just one scene of heterosexual sex, which was between Caligula and his sister Drusilla. A screenplay was written by Lina Wertmüller, but Guccione rejected Wertmüller's script and paid Gore Vidal to write down a new screenplay. Brass publicly said, "If I ever really get mad at Gore Vidal, I'll publish his script". Gielgud was additionally offered the role of Tiberius, which he declined, as he felt Vidal's script was "pornographic", however he later accepted the shorter function of Nerva.
