We all love a good love story unfold on-screen and along with most of those love stories
include some love making!
While some scenes are more romantic than others, there’s no doubt that actors have to go
the extra mile to make these intimate scenes believable for us, the audience.
Take for example Zendaya’s recent Netflix movie, ‘Malcolm & Marie.’
While it’s not particularly a “love story, but rather a story ABOUT love,” I for one
was totally believing the frustration, pain and sadness that was exchanged between Malcolm
& Marie.
I felt Marie’s pain when she says to Malcolm that he didn’t thank her in his awards acceptance
speech… for real, I was low key mad at my significant other watching, because THAT’S
HOW GOOD the acting was.
But on the other side of that emotion coin is intimacy and yes, there were some intimate
scenes in Malcolm & Marie.
But clearly the intimacy wasn’t enough for fans, because The Sun published an entire
piece titled, “WHAT A WASTE: MALCOLM & MARIE LEAVES NETFLIX FANS SWOONING OVER ‘SEX ON
LEGS’ ZENDAYA, BUT THEY HAVE ONE MAJOR COMPLAINT.”
The article reveals many viewers were mad at the lack of steamy scenes, seemingly leaving
fans begging for more.
Many twitter users expressed their frustration writing things like, “Malcom and Marie be
toxic, so much emotion, a rollercoaster, irritating and headache inducing,its painful, its tiring
but I loved it... bathong they didnt get to even have sex.”
And this person who wrote, “malcom and marie really had like 9 arguments in one night with
no type of make up sex.
that’s still not sitting right with my soul.”
While this person blatantly asked, “Before I watch Malcolm & Marie… is there a sex
scene?”
Clearly, people really want sex scenes, which got us thinking…
I wonder what it’s like for celebrities to film such intimate scenes!
Thankfully if you were wondering too, the internet has some answers from some high profile
celebs!
Let’s shift gears to hear what is was like for the ‘Bridgerton’ cast to film it’s
“circus like” makin’ woopie scenes!
If you have NOT seen ‘Bridgerton’ yet, It's filled with dramatic plots, amazing characters,
cool costumes, and a lot of sex scenes.
The most intimate scenes happen between the show’s leads Phoebe Dynevor who plays Daphne
Bridgerton and Rege-Jean Page who plays the Duke, Simon Bassett.
In an interview with E! Rege-Jean and Phoebe dished on just how much time, preparation
and precaution went into those steamy scenes.
They revealed there was an intimacy coordinator on set to help the actors prep for every small
detail, movement and moment between the characters.
Phoebe said, “"I'm really proud of those scenes — we worked really hard at making
them feel real.
I felt very safe with Regé and the intimacy coordinator — we blocked them out like they
were intricate stunts."
Bridgerton’s intimacy coordinator Lizzy Talbot told Insider planning the sex scenes
was “a bit of an intimacy circus”
She added, "There's so much going on there.
We were in loads of different locations all over the country.
We were inside, outside, up ladders; we were everywhere!"
Yes, you heard that right, ladders!
Okay let’s get to another fan fave on-screen duo who had to do it.
Jennifer Lawrence might have hands down the best preparation story for her dirty tango
scenes with Chris Pratt from 2016’s “Passengers.”
This film marked Jlaw’s first real love scene and while Jenn and Chris had a great
friendship and chemistry off-screen, it still took a bit, okay a lot of liquid encouragement
for Jennifer to do the dirty on-screen.
Around the time of filming, Jennifer spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the movie,
including her “really bizarre” love scene with Chris,
She said quote, “I had my first real sex scene a couple weeks ago, and it was really
bizarre.
It was really weird.
Everything was done right; nobody did anything wrong.
It’s just a bizarre experience.”
During an appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” she had some pretty comical
things to add to how uncomfortable sex scenes are.
“So like what do you think, you gunna hump me once, you gunna be on top?
She went on to say she got really drunk.
“I had a bottle of whiskey because you forget when you’re shooting, okay I’m gunna get
drunk for the sex scene because it’s stressful.”
When Chris Pratt was asked later JLaw’s comments on that one scene, Pratt told MTV
that he even helped her mentally prepare for it.
He said quote, “Aside from doing a great job and telling a good story, I think your
primary goal is to make the other person comfortable.
She wanted to have some wine, so we did, and that was nice.”
So clearly, Jennifer didn’t tell him about the bottle of whiskey she had in her trailer…
but either way the scene happened, the movie came out and the rest as they say is history.
We can’t NOT give a few scenes an honorable mention shoutout!
First we have to give it up for Christopher Mintz Plasse aka McLovin’ from ‘Superbad’
and Kristen Wiig & Jon Hamm from ‘Bridesmaids.’
Both scenes equally uncomfortable and hilarious!
*Laughing*
Hey if you can’t laugh at yourself during a sex scene, who can you really laugh at?
If you want more insane behind the scenes stories, click right over here for another
Clevver video.
And I have GOT to know what you thought of these actors stories about their hot and heavy
scenes.
I think it’s hysterical Jennifer Lawrence got drunk before that scene.
Let me know in the comments below.
I’m your host Emile Ennis Jr.
I’ll see you next time right back here on Clevver News!