Tattoo (film)

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Tattoo is a 1981 film starring Bruce Dern and Maud Adams. Karl Kinsky (Dern) is a mentally ill tattoo artist who is hired to create temporary tattoos for some models. He becomes obsessed with one of them, Maddy (Adams), and kidnaps her in order to force her to wear "his mark". He keeps her captive as he creates his masterpiece on her body. Throughout the ensuing captivity, Maddy tries several times to escape, but her attempts are continually thwarted by Kinsky.

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At the culmination of the film, when Kinsky makes love to Maddy after finishing his tattoo on her body, she is finally is successful in escaping his captivity, by stabbing him with his tattoo needle.

Of this scene, Dern was asked if he and Adams really made love for the camera. He responded that they did. Asked about this, Adams vehemently denied that it happened and accused Dern of just being egotistical. Asking about her realistic reactions during the scene, she responded, "Haven't you ever heard of 'acting'?!".^{[citation needed]}