But it's all just part of the job, and none of us can afford to be coy about it. And then there's the problem for the actress she has to get herself into a frame of mind where she's able to let a strange man stroke her bum.
Such scenes could be embarrassing, but I've done them so often now that there's no sensuality in the process. The moment the director says "Cut!" I make a joke to let the woman know that there was no real passion involved. My solution to the potential awkwardness is to joke about it a lot so that the actress I'm with is never under the impression that I'm getting off on it. Actually, you're rarely naked, but you do get into some intimate positions and, of course, you do kiss properly.
I find the way to deal with love scenes is to be extremely professional about the whole thing: this is a job, this is what the two of us happen to have been asked to do-lie in bed naked-and it doesn't matter that we have never met before. This is what Michael Caine says in "Acting in Film" (p. If you're talking about really good actors, I think it would be much more interesting to see them act having sex than actually having it. Real sex in movies is porno, a genre in and of itself. Maybe it happens in crummy independent films like "Brown Bunny", but nowhere else.
%0D %0D No legitimate movie has the actors actually having sex. He talks about "penetration" and how Miles told Voight "Jon, you're raping my knee!" when they were tumbling around in bed and that he "got back on target quickly" and it ended up with "Sylvia on top." He also said the director, who he doesn't name (it was John Schlesinger), cried out as the performers were doing the scene "Fuck her, Jon! Do it to her!"%0D Sounds like they were really having sex, right? Well, towards the end of piece Wilson asks Miles if she would do a sex scene in a film with the sex "unsimulated." So it WASN'T real, after all.
%0D %0D In a book written by the cheesy gossip columnist Earl Wilson he talks to Sylvia Miles about her sex scene with Jon Voight in "Midnight Cowboy." The way he describes it they actually WERE having sex. %0D %0D The sex scenes in "Last Tango in Paris", intense as they were, were not real. It looked VERY real, but the actor in the movie said it wasn't. %0D %0D The movie "Betty Blue" starts out with a man and a woman humping their brains out. The sex scene between Rourke and Otis was rumored to be real, but the rumor was never substantiated.%0D %0D The sex scene in "Don't Look Now" with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland was thought by some to be real, but it wasn't.