Hugh Grant Admits That Filming a Sex Scene Turns Him On — Plus More Stars Dish About Doing the Deed On-Camera!

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Sep 22, 2016 4:49 pm·

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“Love scenes are extremely difficult. You’re always within a millimeter of sentimentality and ‘yuck,’” he told W magazine.

“But sex scenes are something else! 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.”

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That’s… different. Scroll through the gallery below to see what other stars have to say about filming sex scenes!

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Lena Dunham

"I stopped wearing the nude patch after the first season of Girls. There’s not one guy who works on that show who hasn’t seen the inside of my vagina. You glue it over your vagina. It gets sweaty and always falls off. My male costars, at the end of the day, don’t care."

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Jesse Metcalfe

Talking about getting aroused on the set of Desperate Housewives: "In the first scene we ever had, where Gabriella and John first had sex, we were rehearsing and then the director was like, 'OK, get out of bed, we have to reset the set,' and I was like, 'I need a minute.'"

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Michael Fassbender

"Sex scenes can be quite awkward. As a guy, the first thing you want to do is make sure you’re not taking advantage. You don’t want the girl to feel like you’re getting a free feel or something. I try to make a fool of myself in one way or another to lighten the mood and then just go for it, because you don’t want to be doing take after take."

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Dave Franco

On his Neighbors sex scene: "You have 20 crew members who are also watching you do it, and of course, for me, I woke up that morning and had a giant pimple on my ass! I had to go to the make-up artist, who I had also met that week, 'Can we go into the other room and you’ll put make-up literally on my ass?'"

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Jamie Dornan

"Your dignity is intact as much as it’s all tucked away in a little flesh-colored bag… As a guy, you put all your essentials in a little bag and you tie it up like a little bag of grapes and it’s tucked away."

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Ashton Kutcher

"I just start by apologizing… I think somebody told me, and I’m not sure who the actor was. I think it was Sir Laurence Olivier who said it… 'I apologize if I get aroused and I apologize if I do not get aroused.' But there is sort of always this awkward state of, 'Is this OK?'"

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Anne Hathaway

"There is that revoltingly embarrassing moment when you have to take your clothes off in front of strangers. I mean, I don’t go to the beach in a bikini for a reason. So I thought, 'OK, I’m going to be in control. I’m going to do everything properly, disrobe at the last minute, and in between shots get the clothes back on.' But then I found that every time I put my robe back on, it rubbed all the body make-up off, and that added 20 minutes to filming. As with all things in life, the second you stop making it about you and you make it about everyone else, it just got, dare I say, fun."

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Olivia Wilde

"People imagine it’s this really glamorous and sexy thing, but I always laugh because, in reality, there are 50 people in the room. You are stopping and starting. There is someone yelling, like, 'Can you move your hand, can you just put your shoulder down?'"

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Mila Kunis

"It’s hard to have a sex scene, period. It doesn’t matter if it’s a friend, a male, a female. You’re with 100-something crew members, lighting you, repositioning you, there’s no comfort whatsoever."

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Hugh Grant

"Love scenes are extremely difficult. You’re always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.' But sex scenes are something else! 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.”

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