It may look like actors are having a great time when they’re having se-x on screen, but it’s not hard to imagine the awkwardness and difficulty that goes on behind the backstage. For Kirsten Dunst, they are particularly unenjoyable.
The actress told E! News that she feels uncomfortable filming intima-te scenes in her newest film, The Beguiled, alongside Colin Farrell. “I’m on the floor and my clothes are being ripped,” she said. “I don’t like it. I don’t like it. To be honest, I’m like, ‘Let’s get this over with as fast as possible’.
However, the 34-year-old Spiderman star praised the film’s director Sofia Coppola for being sensitive during the shoot. She explained that many male directors want to “shoot it from every angle” which can make the experience all the more excruciating.
“At least Sofia’s like, ‘We’re going to get this done quick, we’re just gonna shoot it here, we’ll do three takes, be done,” she said. Colin Farrell also said he made an effort to be as sensitive as he could when filming the raunchy scenes.
“And women have in the history of cinema… been more exploited of course, through the means of s-xuality, than men have. “So it’s situations like that, any love scenes that I’ve been a party to over the years, you just do whatever your female dance partner needs.”
Respectfully, he said: “I really think a woman should be the boss completely in those scenes, whatever she needs to make her comfortable and allow her to have the freedom to do the job she needs to do.”
The Beguiled, out June 23 in the UK, is a remake of the 1971 thriller and tells the 19th-century story of seduction and betrayal at a women’s boarding school Virginia during the Civil War where women have been sheltered from the outside world.
