Crazy sex scene in Netflix’s Mea Culpa that viewers can’t believe

Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland stars in a steamy new Netflix erotic thriller with a sex scene that’s ‘never been done before.’

Kelly Rowland in Mea Culpa.

Beyoncé may have her billion-dollar music empire, but fellow Destiny’s Child Kelly Rowland is getting her share of love in Mea Culpa, a new erotic thriller that began streaming on Netflix recently.

More specifically, she’s getting quite a lot of love from beefy actor Trevante Rhodes, who plays a sexy artist who successfully seduces Rowland into his den of sin. One scene in the movie in particular has viewers taking to social media to express their shock: It shows the couple having some freaky, paint-covered sex on the floor.

This is about as much of *the* scene we can show you.

Written and directed by Perry, Mea Culpa stars Rowland as Mea Harper, a criminal defence lawyer who must defend her new client, Zyair Malloy (Rhodes) against murder charges. He’s an artist who’s been accused of murdering his girlfriend, but he insists he didn’t do it.

Right away, Zyair takes an interest in Mea. He insists on working on the case in his loft, where he always puts on a mood-setting R&B record. Eventually, he frankly tells Mea he finds her attractive. “You turn me on when I see you. I hug you when I see because I love the way you feel.”

At first, Mea resists his advances. Even if he didn’t violently murder his girlfriend, she probably shouldn’t sleep with her clients. But Zyair doesn’t let up. He even takes her to a sex club.

L-R: Trevante Rhodes, Kelly Rowland, and Tyler Perry at the film’s premiere. Picture: Getty

Kelly and Trevante have some steamy scenes in the film.

But then Mea gets a call from her private investigator friend that her husband (yes, she’s married!), with intel that her husband was seen going into a hotel room with another woman. That’s all the excuse Mea needs to turn her butt around, march back to that bohemian apartment, and go all the way with Zyair.

Zyair wastes no time in sending away the nameless girl he was already having sex with. When Mea still isn’t sure, he takes her for a ride (pun intended) on his motorbike, gets her a drink, and lights some candles. This is a classy lawyer lady, and he needs to do things right. It was the right move because it’s not too long after that that Mea is not only so down, she’s even willing to let Zyair smear paint all over her while they do it.

Zyair pours cups of gold, blue, and red paint down Mea’s body, massaging the oils into her skin. She gives as good as she gets, smearing paint all over him right back. Perry films the scene from strategic angles, so that the positioning and some carefully placed gold paint protect Rowland’s modesty. Still, viewers have taken to social media to discuss *that* scene:

This man really had paint all down through his ass crack #MeaCulpa Tyler Perry is sick pic.twitter.com/ihl6p1r3RK

— Shauna (@itsshaunaboo) February 24, 2024

The paint scene in Mea Culpa? My goodness….. pic.twitter.com/0UqNBtnTsz

— 𐚁 Chaznie Nicole 𐚁 (@ChaznieNicole) February 24, 2024

That paint scene had me like #MeaCulpapic.twitter.com/2H01ERrmNK

— Mr. Panda (@knightofetros) February 24, 2024

When I catch you Tyler Perry for that sex/paint scene in Mea Culpa!

The scream I scrome! I felt like I was intruding. TF ??!! pic.twitter.com/uEOtZjeOtA

— Ⲥⲟⲁ⳽ⲧ Ⲥⲟⲛⲧⲅⲁ Ⲁⳑⳑ ꓓⲁⲩ. 🇸🇩🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩 (@MendoMsutu) February 23, 2024

I just know this had to be Beyoncé & Michelle in the audience at the premiere of #MeaCulpa watching that paint scene. 🤭😂 pic.twitter.com/HeJG7N3X62

— king cake ɳick ⚜️ (@Creat1ve) February 24, 2024

lawd have mercy dat paint scene #MeaCulpapic.twitter.com/WWWGwXPu8X

— Rob X (@dietcolacrush) March 1, 2024

Let me get on Michael’s and order me some paint #MeaCulpapic.twitter.com/zpUIRk9ql2

— Quincy McCall was a bad person (@Kay_Renee) February 24, 2024

According to an interview with Perry for the Mea Culpa press notes, this paint-covered sex scene was at least partially Rowland’s idea. (Rowland was also a producer on the film.)

“She had this thing, for example, where she would say, “Let’s do something in a sex scene that’s never been done before on camera, especially for us as Black people,’” Perry said.

“So I thought, ‘What is that? We’ve done it all.’ But we came up with this incredible idea. I’m so proud of her for what she’s done.”

This story originally appeared on Decider and is republished here with permission

Originally published as Crazy sex scene in Netflix’s Mea Culpa that viewers can’t believe