Sex scenes, what are they really like to perform?

Now that 50 Shades of Grey is a worldwide hit in all cinemas (despite the fact that it is really a drag of a movie) people are also extra interested in sex scenes in general. It all seems very steamy and sultry, but on set it often goes very differently. The British Marie Claire compiled a list of actors reflecting on their most intimate scenes and the stories are certainly not something to be jealous of, but therefore all the more interesting.

“OK, get out of bed, we have to reset the set”, and I was like, “I need a minute.”

So says Jamie Doman, Mr. Grey in Fifty Shades, that his “dignity” is packed in a small flesh-colored bag, “as a guy you put all your essentials in a little bag and you tie it up like a little bag of grapes and it’s tucked away.”

Do you remember the hot gardener John from Desperate Housewives? That actor is Jesse Metcalfe, and he said that it sometimes happens that as a man, eh, you kind of start believing in your own acting, so to speak. “In the first scene we ever had, where Gabriella and John first had sex, we were rehearsing and then the director was like, “OK, get out of bed, we have to reset the set”, and I was like, “I need a minute.”

“Can we go into the other room and you’ll put make-up, literally on my ass?”

Mila Kunis certainly can't find any fun in it. About the sex scenes she filmed for Black Swan, she says that it is incredibly difficult one way or another. “You’re with 100-something crew members, lighting you, repositioning you, there’s no comfort whatsoever.” And then it can also happen that you don’t have a bad hair day, but a bad butt day. It happened to Dave Franco when he had to shoot for Neighbours, “I woke up that morning and had a giant pimple on my ass! I had to go to the make-up artist, who I had also just met that week, “Can we go into the other room and you’ll put make-up, literally on my ass?”

Michael Douglas sums it all up as follows: “The hardest thing about sex scenes is that everybody is a judge. I don’t know the last time you murdered somebody or blew anyone’s brains out, but everyone has sex and probably this morning, which means everyone has an opinion on how it should be done.”

And that, that is true. All in all, I am quite happy with my job and that I can keep my clothes on for it.