Tyler Perry’s ‘Mea Culpa’: Kelly Rowland and Trevante Rhodes Have Freaky Paint Sex

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 today. More specifically, she’s getting quite a lot of love from a very beefy Trevante Rhodes, who plays a sexy artist who successfully seduces Rowland into his den of sin. And you better believe those two have some freaky, paint-covered sex on the floor!

Written and directed by Perry, Mea Culpa stars Rowland as Mea Harper, a criminal defense attorney 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. And with arms like that, it’s hard not to believe him! 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.” Oh, okay!

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 takes her to a sex club. He brazenly stares at Mea while another woman sucks him off—locking eyes with her and smirking, before he finally presses the button for her elevator. Stay strong, Mea.

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 ride Zyair like there’s no tomorrow.

Zyair wastes no time in sending away the nameless girl he was having sex with. He starts making out with Mea, completely naked, while she’s still fully clothed. Hot! 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. And yeah, she makes sure to get the booty. Then, well, they go at it. Perry films from strategic angles, so that the positioning and some carefully placed gold paint protect Rowland’s modesty.

Rhodes is less shy, at least when it comes to his backside. Nor should he be—he’s a beautiful work of art, with or without the shimmering metallic paint that runs down his body. That man is not skipping a single day at the gym, and it shows. Those are some powerful thrusts!

That said, I don’t even the clean-up job that Rhodes and Rowland had to do after that shoot. That paint looks like it got into some deep crevices.

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.”

Get it, girl!