In a desperate bid to trick people into seeing surefire shitfest This Means War (renamed overseas as No Homo: the Motion Picture), the studio publicists are flinging fluff at news outlets to see what sticks. In Yahoo’s case, this means five “fun” “film” “facts” about the movie that make you not only want to see the movie, but maybe also never watch a movie again (spoiler: Chris Pine’s parents were on an episode of CHiPS! That’s a whole fact! By itself!).

But they wanted to lead with a really quality one, one that would highlight both the movie’s adult subject matter and the delicate balance of spy thriller and romance that this movie tries to strike as it bravely breaks genre barriers! So, we got this one:

Witherspoon didn’t realize this would be her sexiest role yet, but director McG insisted. To make the fight for the same woman seem credible, he felt the story needed a sexy, powerful, capable woman to play the part of Lauren Scott. McG had so much vision for Witherspoon’s character, he even picked out her underwear and went to the gym with her every morning. “What I wanted to do was challenge her to be a little bit more sexy. I said, ‘Reese, you’re so hot, let’s just get out there and share it with the world.’ And that’s really her in her underwear making out with Pine on a kitchen top.

Three things about this:

1. Thank God it’s really her in her underwear making out with Chris Pine on a kitchen top. I would have felt extremely super cheated if McG had spent all that time staring at her in the gym and picking out underwear he could film her in, just for her to invoke a contractual loophole and send in a body double to do the sexy scenes that she apparently hadn’t anticipated but felt pressured into anyway! That’s for quitters.

2. This went unspoken in the Fun Fact, but I feel I can rest assured that his vision for her character also included taking her to board meetings of companies where woman CEOs presided while making tough decisions in an environment trained to belittle and vilify assertive women, and then a visit to NASA labs where women are applying their advanced-science degrees in their space-flight training and Mars-colony simulations, and these entities just asked not to be mentioned so that their offices wouldn’t be flooded by the scores of actors straining to confidently portray capable, powerful women for all those movies where capable, powerful women are in high demand.

3. I can’t wait for the buzz coming from viewers of This Means War (alternate overseas title: Fighting Over a Vagina) about the sea change this signals in cinema, where a woman who sleeps with two men is no longer flattened by sexual behavior into a two-timer, a cheat, or a slut, and is instead seen for her capable powerfulness and her complex needs and choices as a person, and considered in the way she would wish to be: a trophy with a uterus.

Thank you, McG, from women everywhere. The next time a guy at the gym hands me the underwear he picked out for me, I’ll raise it to the heavens like baby Simba, and think of you.