Getting naked in front of people is always going to be an awkward experience, even if it is your job.
Obviously, detaching yourself from everything is how one deals with it, but there's other ways. In a column written by an "Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated actor" who wishes to remain anonymous, she lifts the lid even further on the horribleness that is simulating sex for a film.
The female actor, who doesn't name either herself or the actors she's worked with, gives a frank and unflattering view into how sex scenes are shot and, more importantly, how the body reacts to them. "The body reacts as bodies in those moments of intimacy do – they sweat, they redden, they harden. The hardening part was once skillfully addressed by an actor I was about to have crazy sex with, with a sanguine: 'Forgive me if I do, forgive me if I don’t.'"
Even more salacious was how the anonymous actor even once convinced an actor to take her from behind - so as to avoid his halitosis. She went on, explaining that "pretending to have sex with someone you fancy is still painfully embarrassing, but pretending to have sex with someone you do not like in the slightest is downright awful."
The whole article is worth a read and is a reminder that, at the end of the day, we're all people and trying to simulate sex in front of a camera is one way to make a living.
Via Guardian.com
