If both you and your significant other are actors, shooting an intimate scene seems like a great idea.
After all, who else would be a better scene partner?
But it would appear that chemistry in the bedroom doesn’t necessarily translate to the technical, arduous love scene filming process on set – as many actors have revealed.
Most recently, Ewan McGregor and wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead admitted to using an intimacy coordinator to help choreograph their sex scenes in forthcoming Paramount+ series A Gentleman in Moscow.
Despite being married for nearly two years and in a relationship since 2017, the couple were happy to be guided through the amorous scenes as they believed it was ‘still necessary’.
Most recently, Ewan McGregor and wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead admitted to using an intimacy coordinator to help choreograph their sex scenes in forthcoming Paramount+ series A Gentleman in Moscow
Despite being married for nearly two years and in a relationship since 2017, the couple (pictured earlier this month) were happy to be guided through the amorous scenes as they believed it was ‘still necessary’
According to Ewan, 52, who met his wife, 39, on the set of Fargo, it was still ‘odd’ to be naked and intimate around other people.
‘If you were doing a dance scene, you’d have a choreographer,’ he told the Radio Times.
‘It’s an important part of the work now, because it’s somebody that the director and actors meet in the middle.’
And the actor may well have had a point, as celebrities over the years have admitted that they’ve felt ‘strange’, ‘awkward’ and ‘uncomfortable’ about shooting love scenes with their partners despite thinking it would be easier.
Riley Keough – whose husband played a one night stand on Daisy Jones & The Six – admitted that the discomfort arose from the fact that she’s never had ‘pretend sex’ with him before, whereas Kyra Sedgwick said it’s ‘weird’ to shoot intimate moments with her husband Kevin Bacon because it blurs what’s ‘real’ and isn’t.
Elsewhere Angelina Jolie has before branded it ‘the strangest thing’ to make love on camera with her then husband Brad Pitt.
Here, FEMAIL takes a look at what real-life Hollywood couples have said about tackling steamy scenes together…
Riley Keough & Ben Smith-Petersen
The star of Daisy Jones & The Six revealed that it was ‘awkward’ to shoot a sex scene with her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, in episode two of the series.
In the show, the pair have a one night stand as a distracted Daisy thinks more about song lyrics than her bed partner.
The star of Daisy Jones & The Six revealed that it was ‘awkward’ to shoot a sex scene with her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, in episode two of the series
In the show, the pair have a one night stand as a distracted Daisy thinks more about song lyrics than her bed partner. Pictured earlier this year
Speaking on Late Night with Seth Meyers last year, Riley, 34, admitted the producers thought ‘it would be so funny’ if her husband of nine years starred in the cameo.
‘I think they were thinking it would be less awkward and then we got there and they’re like, “This is really uncomfortable”,’ she explained.
‘For one, I’ve never had pretend sex with my husband.”
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt
In 2015, a newly married Angelina Jolie, 48, and Brad Pitt, 60 – who have since split up – shot intimate scenes in By the Sea, a romantic drama.
Angelina also wrote, directed and produced the film – later admitting it felt unusual to simulate love making with her husband on camera.
According to Yahoo, she told Entertainment Weekly: ‘It’s the strangest thing in the world to be lying naked in a bathtub with an iPad that’s showing you the shot outside, while your husband is at the door and you’re directing him to come in and make love to you in front of a bunch of other men with cameras.
In 2015, a newly married Angelina Jolie, 48, and Brad Pitt, 60 – who have since split up – shot intimate scenes in By the Sea, a romantic drama
Angelina also wrote, directed and produced the film – later admitting it felt unusual to simulate love making with her husband on camera. The pair pictured in 2014
‘I couldn’t get out of the bathtub to get to the monitor because the director is naked.
‘We’re artists and want to be free, but Brad – it’s his wife. He was on towel duty. He’d hold the towel over me.’
She added it was also ‘strange’ to ‘do a love scene with a person that you really have sex with’, explaining that the only way to tackle it was to ‘talk about the absurdity of it’.
Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick
This Hollywood It-couple have been married for 36 years – but early into their marriage, in 1991, the pair decided to do a wacky sex comedy called Pyrates together.
And speaking to Yahoo last year, Kyra, 58, revealed that it’s ‘much harder’ to do sex scenes with her real-life partner than a fellow actor.
She and Kevin, 65, have also since filmed intimate scenes together for other projects, including Murder in the First (1995) and The Woodsman (2004).
This Hollywood It-couple have been married for 36 years – but early into their marriage, in 1991, the pair decided to do a wacky sex comedy called Pyrates together
She and Kevin, 65, have also since filmed intimate scenes together for other projects, including Murder in the First (1995) and The Woodsman (2004). Pictured in October
‘It’s weird because we’re always like, “Is this real or is it not?”,’ she explained.
‘As an actor, you sometimes have these dreams when you start a job where you’re sleeping and they’re filming you.
‘With Pyrates, I was [sleeping] with my husband and they were filming it! It’s like, “This can’t be real — I’m having a dream.”‘
Chris Hemsworth & Elsa Pataky
In 2018, Chris Hemsworth, 40, and his wife Elsa Pataky, 47 – who have been married for 14 years – played husband and wife in action thriller 12 Strong.
The movie tells the story of the first Special Forces team that’s deployed to Afghanistan following the events of 9/11.
Appearing on breakfast TV show Sunrise to promote the film, Chris said his wife would ‘boss him around’ on set.
In 2018, Chris Hemsworth, 40, and his wife Elsa Pataky, 47 – who have been married for 14 years – played husband and wife in action thriller 12 Strong
However, when it came to filming the film’s love scenes, Chris told Sunrise hosts Samantha Armytage and David ‘Kochie’ Koch that it wasn’t exactly the kind of environment they were used to. Pictured earlier this month
‘We had about seven or eight year’s rehearsal time to play these characters,’ he said.
‘If we didn’t have any chemistry we’d be in trouble.’
However, when it came to filming the film’s love scenes, Chris told Sunrise hosts Samantha Armytage and David ‘Kochie’ Koch that it wasn’t exactly the kind of environment they were used to.
‘How do you do a love scene with your own wife with a crew standing around?’ Sam asked the star.
‘Yeah, that’d be the big difference,’ Chris replied adding ‘the cameras and the lights… that we weren’t accustomed to.
Sam cheekily added: ‘Well we should hope so’.
‘It’s not a usual setting for us definitely,’ Chris said.
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart
Robert Pattinson has in past opened up about how ‘strange’ it was to shoot intimate scenes with Kristen Stewart – who he was in a relationship with – during the Twilight series.
In 2011, he told Parade: ‘I think the more comfortable you are with each other, the harder it gets to do any kind of really intense relationship scene.
Robert Pattinson has in past opened up about how ‘strange’ it was to shoot intimate scenes with Kristen Stewart – who he was in a relationship with – during the Twilight series
The pair – who used to be in a relationship as well being co-stars – pictured together in November 2012
‘You’re kind of thinking, “I don’t want to embarrass myself in front of this person,” “I know what she’s thinking now,” so it becomes ridiculous after awhile.
‘Watching other people have sex is never going to be that spectacular anyway. It’s a strange thing when there’s so much hype about it.’
Viola Davis & Julius Tennon
Viola Davis’s husband Julius Tennon plays one of her on-screen love interests on the hit show, How to Get Away with Murder.
And while Viola, 58, admitted she felt ‘safe’ doing intimate scenes with her partner of nearly 20 years, there were some awkward moments during filming.
And while Viola, 58, admitted she felt ‘safe’ doing intimate scenes with her partner of nearly 20 years, there were some awkward moments during filming
Viola Davis’s husband Julius Tennon plays one of her on-screen love interests on the hit show, How to Get Away with Murder
Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2017, she recounted: ‘He had to take my panties off at one point and then I had to keep resetting them because you know, you’ve got to keep doing the scene over and over again.
‘But I forgot to reset them once and so we got to the point and he went to pull them off and his face went “V, you’ve to put your panties back on!”‘