Kathryn Hahn Discovers Joy of Porn in HBO’s New ‘Mrs. Fletcher’ (AVN)

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Miniseries based on Tom Perotta novel follows woman’s sexual awakening after watching MILF porn.

Veteran actress Kathryn Hahn, star of the 2017 Amazon miniseries I Love Dick, currently can be seen in a similar role as a woman experiencing a mid-life sexual awakening—but this time the catalyst for her self-discovery is not a narcissistic artist named Dick, played by Kevin Bacon. This time, what sets her off on her sexual quest is a Google search for MILF porn.

In the new HBO series Mrs. Fletcher—based on a novel by Tom Perotta, who was also behind the network’s critically acclaimed drama, The Leftovers—the 46-year-old Hahn portrays the title role, a empty-nest mom who sends her son off to college worried that he has learned everything he knows about relationships from his obsession with online porn.

But on her first night alone in the house, Hahn’s character, Eve, passes the lonely hours by typing “MILF” into the Google search box, and a whole new world suddenly opens up for her.

With the HBO show’s heavy emphasis on sexual subject matter, the network also hired an “intimacy coordinator” to oversee the filming of the show’s numerous sex scenes, a practice HBO began with its David Simon–produced 1970s/’80s porn drama, The Deuce.

Hahn said that despite some initial hesitation, she found that the use of an intimacy coordinator gave her more freedom as an actress.