While most actors dread the filming of a raunchy romp with their co-stars, Hugh Grant has revealed he has quite the opposite reaction!
In a new interview with W magazine, the 56-year-old actor joked that he found it much harder to film ‘love’ scenes as opposed to ‘sex scenes’.
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Referencing his famous roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, Hugh told the publication that he found love scenes “extremely difficult”.
“You’re always within a millimetre of sentimentality and ‘yuck.’ But sex scenes are something else!” he said.
Hugh with his Two Weeks Notice co-star Sandra Bullock at the Spike TV Guys’ Choice Awards in 2014, where he presented her with the award for the ‘Decade of Hotness’. Photo: Getty
“The conventional response to sex scenes is that they’re horrible and not sexy and it’s all so unnatural. But I’ve always found filming sex scenes to be quite a turn-on.
“I like the experience of being in a sexual position when you’re not supposed to be in one.”
It’s a far cry from other actors who have been vocal about their discomfort of filming romantic scenes.
Hugh and Renee Zellweger at the premiere of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason in 2004. Photo: Getty
Ahead of the release of Fifty Shades of Grey last year, star Dakota Johnson opened up about how “filming a sex scene is not a sensual or pleasurable environment”.
“It’s really hot – not in a steamy, sexual way. It’s just sweaty and it’s not very comfortable.”
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