# Have actors really had sex on camera in a non-porn Hollywood movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435 "2002-10-01T18:55:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/1 "2002-10-01T18:55:10Z")
I feel like [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2480377#post2478473) 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](http://www.imdb.com/PeopleNews/2002/20020102#3) 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 :)). ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/2 "2002-10-01T19:58:20Z")
I had heard that Kim Bassinger and Alec had sex in The Getaway they were in. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/3 "2002-10-01T20:23:12Z")
There’s a french film called ‘intimacy’. Whoa nelly. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/4 "2002-10-01T20:24:28Z")
Stretching a bit to go beyond Hollywood, but: - 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… ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/5 "2002-10-01T20:34:39Z")
One of the only cases I recall hearing about: 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). ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/6 "2002-10-01T21:00:10Z")
Devil In The Flesh. A pretty boring movie aside from the fact that it contained an actual blowjob. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/7 "2002-10-01T22:54:25Z")
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](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0074084).\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/8 "2002-10-01T23:26:22Z")
I think I read that Barbara Hershey & Mr Carradine did it in one of their films which resulted in their kid, Free… (I think that’s his name, Free) ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/9 "2002-10-01T23:34:14Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/10 "2002-10-02T00:13:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/11 "2002-10-02T01:09:49Z")
**Cholo** , Pallenberg _seduced_ Jagger while on the set, but no actual sex was had while the cameras were filming. Does **Caligula** count as a _Hollywood_ film? If so, then there **definitely** was sex on camera, although not by the principal actors. Well, that depends on what one’s definition of actor is.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/12 "2002-10-02T01:45:01Z")
I recall seeing an interview with [Russ Meyer](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Meyer,+Russ), 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. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/13 "2002-10-02T02:55:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/14 "2002-10-02T03:23:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/15 "2002-10-02T03:40:34Z")
You surprise me **gobear**. 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. (coding fixed – Uke) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/16 "2002-10-02T03:42:50Z")
Mods? _sigh_ Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/17 "2002-10-02T04:18:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/18 "2002-10-02T11:48:57Z")
I’ve actually seen _Wild Orchid_ thanks to finding my grampa’s hidden tape when I was a teenager. If that’s not real then that was a REALLY good fake. A couple of the camera angles are top down and you can see that there’s penetration involved. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/19 "2002-10-02T12:21:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\*How is it possible to have real sex on a movie set…How can anybody have real sex in such an environment? > > FYI, people don’t have real sex in porn either… \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435/20 "2002-10-02T12:42:40Z")
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) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-actors-really-had-sex-on-camera-in-a-non-porn-hollywood-movie/130435.md?page=2)