When actors have to strip down and pretend they're caught up in the heat of the moment,
they can have strong opinions about it.
In fact, some actors wish they hadn't filmed some love scenes at all, and seriously regret
doing so.
These are the love scenes actors hated filming.
Titanic is a massively popular film and one of the most iconic romance movies in history.
The movie tells the true story of the Titanic's sinking, but the fictional love story between
Jack and Rose is what makes the movie a classic.
In the film, Rose, played by Kate Winslet, has a few steamy scenes with Jack, played
by Leonardo DiCaprio.
But one of the most memorable love scenes is when Jack draws Rose while she's without
clothes.
"Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls."
But Winslet has some regrets about filming the scene.
She revealed in an interview with Yahoo!:
"There's a photo of it as well that someone has lifted from a still of the film, and that
photo gets passed around too.
I'm like 'No!
I didn't mean for it to be a photograph that I would end up seeing still 17 years later.'
It's still haunting me."
Nicole Kidman is a stellar actor who's played just about every kind of character out there.
But on Big Little Lies, Kidman's character, Celeste, is deep and intense because she's
in an abusive relationship with her husband, Perry, played by Alexander Skarsgard.
And things get extremely dangerous in some scenes.
In an interview with W magazine, Kidman revealed that she really hated filming the violent
love scenes, as they were fraught with so much violence and despair.
She said:
"I felt very exposed and vulnerable and deeply humiliated at times.
I mean, I remember lying on the floor in the bathroom at the very end when we were doing
the scenes in episode seven and I just wouldn't get up in-between takes."
It couldn't have been easy for Nicole Kidman to play a character who was put through unbearable
trauma and we imagine it would be tough for anyone.
It's no secret that HBO's Game of Thrones was known for two things: its violence and
its vivid love scenes.
The show depicted nearly everything traumatic and taboo, but for Emilia Clarke, who plays
Daenerys Targaryen, love scenes were often difficult with co-star Jason Momoa.
In an interview with The Guardian, Clarke said that she hated filming those vulnerable
love scenes, especially while unclothed.
She explained:
"I'd been on a film set twice before then, and I'm now on a film set completely naked
with all of these people, and I don't know what I'm meant to do, and I don't know what's
expected of me."
But since then Clarke has learned to stand up for herself.
She explained that she's refused to film without clothes on set for other projects.
She even turned down the lead part in Fifty Shades of Grey, according to The Hollywood
Reporter.
Basically the entire premise of Fifty Shades of Grey is that a woman enters into an intense
relationship with a man, and they have a lot of bondage-enhanced intimacy.
But both the books and movies were hugely successful, and as the plot focused largely
on love scenes, there were some awkward moments on set.
In fact, Jamie Dornan, who played Christian Grey, straight up hated filming the intense
scenes.
Dornan explained to The Guardian that while they were careful while filming, it was complicated.
He said:
"You don't want to make something gratuitous, and ugly, and graphic."
Dornan added that he made sure he wasn't too uncomfortable, stating:
"There were contracts in place that said that viewers wouldn't be seeing my, um..."
If you catch his drift.
To make it as comfortable on set for the actor, Dornan explained on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel
Live that:
"They try to keep it like, (I see), who only whoever really needs to be in there, like
me.
(like you)
While he starred in Fifty Shades of Grey, Dornan told The Irish Sun:
"A part of me still can't really believe I did those films.
There's an element in me that's going, 'why did they make movies out of those books?'"
While Dornan felt awkward filming Fifty Shades, he at least had some kind of contractual element
of privacy.
While Dakota Johnson played the timid, yet adventurous Ana Steele in the Fifty Shades
movies, she wasn't shy about her feelings while filming.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Johnson explained that she never got used
to filming the love scenes and it took her a long time to get mentally prepared for what
she was about to have to do on set, saying:
"Over the course of the three films, it never got easier.
It wasn't like, 'Oh, this old thing,' you know?"
Johnson revealed another reason she pretty much hated filming love scenes for the movies,
telling Time:
"Filming a sex scene is not a sensual or pleasurable environment.
It's just sweaty and it's not very comfortable."
Jennifer Lawrence is well-regarded for her impressive acting skills, as well as for her
sense of humor and quirkiness.
But one thing even the most devout Lawrence fans might not know about her is that she
tends to hate filming love scenes.
But more specifically, she hated filming her love scene with Chris Pratt in Passengers,
due to one interesting reason.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Lawrence revealed that she was incredibly anxious when
it was time to get intimate with Pratt.
She confessed:
"I got really, really drunk.
But then that led to more anxiety when I got home because I was like, 'What have I done?
I don't know.'"
The reason Lawrence was so nervous?
Pratt was married while they were making Passengers, which bothered her.
She stated:
"It was going to be my first time kissing a married man, and guilt is the worst feeling
in your stomach.
And I knew it was my job, but I couldn't tell my stomach that."
Fortunately for Lawrence, she somehow made it through by not getting completely caught
up in her guilt.
The majority of the entertainment industry has proven to be rough on women, particularly
those who are trying to make their big break.
While the same can be said for men trying to break into the industry, women seem to
have a harder time saying no due to pressure.
And it's something Jessica Brown Findlay learned while filming a revealing scene in Albatross.
Brown told Radio Times that she really disliked filming a particular scene and how it made
her uncomfortable.
She revealed:
"To be honest, Albatross was naïveté and not knowing that I could say no.
I had no idea what was going to happen and thought I was going to be shot from behind.
It's not something I would do again."
With a show like Sex and the City, viewers expected to see plenty of intimacy.
The title definitely made that very clear, but there were still scenes that some of the
actors strongly disliked filming.
And for Kim Cattrall, who played perhaps the most adventurous character on the show, Samantha
Jones, one love scene had her practically gagging.
In an interview with Piers Morgan, Cattrall revealed that there was a certain scene she
despised doing with a certain unnamed actor that ended with out of control bodily functions.
She explained:
"I was working with an actor and we were doing the scene, and he is on top of me, and then
he collapsed — and then he farted."
Cattrall added that she later learned the actor had been on a diet and had passed out
from hunger.
But she said that still:
"It was pretty gross."
We'd have to agree with Cattrall that passing gas is ranked least fun during love scenes,
in our humble opinion.
"Honestly, I don't even think he noticed.
Huh."
Shailene Woodley has gone from starring in teenage dramas to co-starring alongside the
likes of Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep.
But even though she's a true professional, she's still hated filming some love scenes
in her career, and her reasoning makes total sense.
While speaking to Page Six, Woodley revealed that there was one kind of love scene she
hated the most: the kind that featured intimacy with people she had no cerebral or intimate
connection with.
She explained:
"It's always an awkward situation when you have to pretend to be intimate with someone
that you're not actually intimate with."
We hope she's not talking about co-star from the Divergent franchise Theo James!
But Woodley acknowledged that:
"The awkwardness probably lends itself to these great virginity scenes."
It may have been less-than-comfortable for her but it made for her acclaimed performance
in White Bird in a Blizzard.
There's certainly no denying that the Twilight franchise was entertaining and highly successful.
But it doesn't mean the stars of the movie enjoyed every aspect of filming.
Kristen Stewart, who played Bella Swan in the films, has said that she hated filming
the most intense love scene in the movies, for a totally understandable reason.
In an interview with Harper's Bazaar, Stewart explained that she really felt the pressure
and didn't like filming the big love scene with co-star Robert Pattinson, who played
Bella's love interest Edward Cullen.
Stewart shared:
"On Twilight, we had to do the most epic sex scene of all time.
It had to be transcendent and otherworldly, inhuman, better sex than you can possibly
ever imagine."
No pressure, right?
Because of the very specific expectation, Stewart continued that:
"We were so self-consciously aware of that, me and Rob and the producers.
It was agony."
Given that Pattinson and Stewart fell in love on set and dated for a bit after the Twilight
movies wrapped, we're hoping it was only a little bit of agony.
Some movie or television scenes just stick with you long after you first watch them,
and the love scene in Black Swan is truly no exception.
The film was full of incredibly memorable scenes, though some were more intense than
others.
And sometimes the intensity took a toll on the actors.
The love scene between stars Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman was particularly difficult
for Kunis, but not for the reasons you might think.
Kunis told HuffPost:
"It's hard to have a sex scene, period.
It doesn't matter if it's a friend, a male, a female.
You're with 100-something crew members, lighting you, repositioning you, there's no comfort
whatsoever."
But both Portman and Kunis admitted that shooting a love scene with a friend made it even more
difficult, even if the chemistry between the two actors was definitely there.
Looking at Blake Lively's resume, one might think that she'd be completely comfortable
shooting intimate and steamy scenes.
Despite her performance in Gossip Girl, Lively has still had some issues filming intimate
scenes.
The actress opened up about her work in The Town, which she starred in alongside Ben Affleck,
and how she had a difficult time filming their love scene.
Lively explained to Interview magazine that she struggled with her self-esteem during
those vulnerable moments.
She revealed:
"We're all only so confident.
It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything.
It's all a facade."
It didn't help that it was Lively's first day on set when she had to get hot and heavy
with Affleck.
And while she obviously was able to work past her issues on set with her co-star, it's clear
that shooting the scene was something Lively wasn't all that into doing.
Though most people might associate Justin Timberlake with his teen heartthrob days in
the boy band NSYNC, his acting career has blossomed in later years.
In the romantic comedy Friends with Benefits, audiences saw Timberlake get in numerous compromising
predicaments with co-star Mila Kunis.
And while the movie is a quintessential romantic comedy, Timberlake hated having to film his
steamy scenes with Kunis.
While talking to BBC, Timberlake revealed that he didn't look forward to those scenes
because it was emotionally and physically draining.
He admitted:
"It's actually kind of annoying, you're there for 12 hours, it's exhausting.
All those scenes revolve around the dialogue and physical humor is so tiring."
Timberlake added that he felt his age and it possibly made him a little out of touch
with the scenes.
Whatever the case, the star definitely didn't enjoy getting down and dirty for the movie,
but he's saving all his acting energy for his emotionally driven music videos.
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