I feel like this post in Belrix’s thread is too much of a hijack, so I’m breaking it off into this thread.
Can someone provide some concrete evidence that Hollywood actors - not soft-core or even hard-core-porn actors - have actually had sex in a Hollywood sex scene? I’ve heard it mentioned that Mickey Roarke and Carre Otis actually had sex in Wild Orchid, KidCharlemagne heard somewhere that Charlize Theron and Ben Affleck had sex in Reindeer Games.
Cervaise offered up a cite in which Mira Sorvino admits that other stars have had sex on camera, but admittedly she feels the source is dubious at best.
Personally, I have a hard time believing that the SAG, or any major studio would OK such a scene, to say nothing of dealing with all the crew members hanging around. (Pun intended :)).
In the French movie Romance, the lead actress, apparently a reasonably well known legitimate actress, has sex with at least one actor on screen. However, Euro porn star Rocco Something-or-other (Siffredi?) was cast as her boyfriend in part to ensure that things could be filmed as planned…
Asia Argento, lately of XXX apparently filmed a whacked out movie in Italy featuring all kinds of kinkiness. It was discussed in the Rolling Stone featuring her on the cover.
Also:
When asked, Sharon Stone stated that she and Michael Douglas most definitely did not have sex during Basic Instinct. I don’t have a cite, but remember reading it…
Bruce Dern told numerous reporters that, in a little-seen, not terribly successful thriller called “Tattoo,” he and actress Maud Adams were really having sex.
Adams denied this emphatically, and most people dismissed the suggestion as a lame attempt on Dern’s part to drum up box office for a film nobody seemed interested in watching.
At the time, I recall comedian/country singer Jim Stafford speculating on the Merv Griffin Show that, “there are only two possibilities, I guess. He did and she didn’t… or he did, and she didn’t even notice.”
Either way, it didn’t sound good for Dern (who’s almost always played lunatics in movies, and came out looking like a GENUINE loonie).
I forgot an example that should have been mentioned in the other thread.
Robert De Niro most certainly gets his knob polished, on screen, in Bertolucci’s *1900.* As I recall, the original cut of the film contains some awfully kinky stuff, including some material with underage boys that would be considered illegal according to today’s laws.
There is a rumor in the Stones circles that Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg (Keith Richard’s common-law wife at the time) actually had sex during the filming of “Performance” back in 1969. Who knows?
OK, it’s not exactly Hollywood (having been filmed in Denmark) but in Lars von Trier’s the Idiots, there is an orgy scene featuring the prinicipal actors, including a brief shot showing penetration.
I recall seeing an interview with Russ Meyer, director of such classics as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, in which he mentioned that some of the actors in his films were actually having sex, rather than just simulating it.
How is it possible to have real sex on a movie set? First, yopu have to remember that there is a crowd of people–the director, electricians, cameramen, sound recordists–in the room with the actors. Second, action in a movie seems continuous, but in reality, it is spliced together from several takes. How can anybody have real sex in such an environment?
FYI, people don’t have real sex in porn either. Porn is designed to LOOK erotic, not to BE erotic. When the performers are told, “lift your leg, pump harder, now face the camera CUT OK we need to change the angle, go have a Diet Coke while we set up.” it’s difficult to get the mood going. Sure, fluffers on set may keep the wood hard, but that doesn’t make simulated sex into real sex.
Well, if you define sex as the full act ending with orgasm, then probably no, there aren’t many (if any). I think the OP, however, was referring to cases in which there was actual penetration instead of just pretending with no genital contact.
It’s a little hard to tell in the Japanese version, but in Ai no Corrida (In the Realm of the Senses), there were a couple of scenes where there appeared to be real oral-genital contact.
Hollywood is full of what? Exhibitionists.
For many, getting out of the gutter requires two steps.
Publicity is the end to a means. It matters not whether it’s good or bad.
You think these attentionholics give a Hoot in Whoville if they, a starlet, are caught with a rich and established leading man?
Please. They b b boink like cold pigs.
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Of all mainstream movies, the sex scene featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Don’t Look Now has arguably attracted the most prurient discussion.
The two principals are not forthcoming on the subject but those who saw the uncut footage were said to be ‘shocked’.
‘Concrete evidence’ regarding this or any other similar example won’t be easy to find.
Sounds like your definition of “sex” is different from everyone else on the planet. We aren’t talking about “good” sex or meaningful sex or romance, we’re talking about real penises really going into real vaginas (or other body parts, depending).
As for the other stuff, there are people who get off all the better for having a crowd.
Wait wait, I started reading this thread thinking that somebody must have already said something about Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut. I mean they were married and they were working with a director who would want as much realism as possible. It would be tough to achieve normally, but with a couple married in real life and in the film, why not?
I’m NOT saying that it definitely happened, but I wouldn’t be all that surprised if it did. I did hear that they often cleared the set completely when filming Tom & Nicole together because Kubrick wanted it to be more intimate. Then again, they might have just said that to make everyone think they really had sex.
Maybe Kubrick promised to have the camera trained only on their head and shoulders while he kept his eyes wide shut. Heheheh heh heh…heh (alright, cheezy, sorry couldn’t help it)
