{"id":2258110,"date":"2026-01-30T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2258110"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:16:46","slug":"actors-who-had-actual-sx-in-film-including-robert-pattinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/actors-who-had-actual-sx-in-film-including-robert-pattinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Actors who had actual s*x in film, including Robert Pattinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason those scenes looked so realistic <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Directors, writers, and actors work especially hard to get the most realistic shots, and sometimes, that apparently calls for real s*x in TV and film.<\/p>\n<p>Nudity and s*x are staples of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/tag\/tv\">TV<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/tag\/film\">film<\/a>, hence why a lot of us have PTSD from unwittingly watching a naughty scene with our parents. More often than not, the illusion of s*x is created through clever camera angles, a focus on less overtly x-rated body parts, and the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/2024\/11\/11\/if-youve-got-it-flaunt-it-eight-stars-who-didnt-wear-a-prosthetic-in-their-tv-shows\">time-honoured tradition of prosthetics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes, as you\u2019re about to learn, that just doesn\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n<h2>Robert Pattinson and Aubrey Plaza both had a solo scene<\/h2>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Little Ashes official UK trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MGCJ2N9bg4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In the 2008 film Little Ashes, Robert Pattinson played surrealist painter Salvador Dali. The movie called for a m*sturbation scene, but faking it wasn\u2019t an option, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy orgasm face is recorded for eternity,\u201d the Twilight star told a German magazine. \u201c[It] just doesn\u2019t work, so I pleasured myself in front of the camera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same could be said of Aubrey Plaza, who had a similar scene in her raunchy 2013 movie, The To-Do List.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my head I envisioned a nice scene where you just see my hand slowly go out of frame,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I was doing one thing and when I showed up it was a whole different thing, it was a full body shot and I asked the director \u2018what should I do\u2019 and she said \u2018masturbate like it says in the script\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The To Do List Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Aubrey Plaza Movie HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UKGigK17eSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance<\/h2>\n<p>For 2001\u2019s Intimacy, actors Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance engaged in unsimulated oral s*x for the film about a lothario musician. Looking back, Mark regrets agreeing to do it. He wasn\u2019t confident enough to say no.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHanif Kureishi\u2019s writing couldn\u2019t have been more intimate and revealing, but I found the making of the film and the subsequent publicity and personal attacks very, very painful. I wish I hadn\u2019t made it,\u201d he told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/live\/2016\/nov\/14\/mark-rylance-webchat-nice-fish\">The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Kerry does not regret doing the film.<\/p>\n<h2>Chlo\u00eb Sevigny might need therapy at some point<\/h2>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Brown Bunny (2003) - 20th Anniversary Unofficial Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NDFpCxYxf0A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Chlo\u00eb Sevigny can proboably relate to Mark Rylance\u2019s perspective, because she too did an unsimulated oral s*x scene for The Brown Bunny with Vincent Gallo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of emotions. I\u2019ll probably have to go to therapy at some point. But I love Vincent. The film is tragic and beautiful, and I\u2019m proud of it and my performance,\u201d she told Playboy.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, she did say in a later interview: \u201cI\u2019d probably still do it today. I believe in Vincent as an artist, and I stand by the film. It was a subversive act. It was a risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Pretty much all the stars in Nymphomaniac<\/h2>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nymphomaniac (2014) Official Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WJ7dXTHnp8M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As you can probably guess from the name of the movie, Nymphomaniac was about the naughty exploits of a woman addicted to s*x. It starred Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman, Mia Goth, and Willem Dafoe.<\/p>\n<p>Though the actual actors had simulated s*x for the film, the same scenes were recorded with body doubles who actually did it. The two versions were then stitched together like an x-rated Frankenstein\u2019s monster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo above the waist, it will be the star, and below the waist, it will be the doubles,\u201d the director said.<\/p>\n<h2>Andy Warhol was the first to do it<\/h2>\n<p>1969\u2019s Blue Movie was the first film to have actors doing real s*x on screen. It was quite controversial at the time, even for Andy Warhol, and one theatre was fined $250 for obscenity.<\/p>\n<p>For more like this,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thetabglobal\/?locale=en_GB\">like The Tab on Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Featured image credit: Marion Curtis\/StarPix for Vertical\/Shutterstock and Marion Curtis\/StarPix for Focus Features\/Shutterstock and Blondet Eliot\/ABACA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source thetab.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a reason those scenes looked so realistic Directors, writers, and actors work especially hard to get the most realistic shots, and sometimes, that apparently calls for real s*x in TV and film. 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