Ashton Kutcher was “tired” of filming sex scenes with his No Strings Attached co-star Natalie Portman. – as he fumed: “Do we have to?”
The pair starred together in the racy rom-com in 2011, which followed their characters Emma and Adam as they tried to embark on a strictly physical friends-with-benefits situation – only for feelings to get in the way. But there was so much sex in the movie that Ashton got “tired” of it.
He remarked at the time: “I was shooting so many sex scenes I was getting tired of it. I never thought that anything related to sex would be something I’d get tired of!
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“You’re there and you’re doing the scene and you’re like, ‘Do we have to shoot another sex scene?’ You’re always waiting, wondering when the word ‘cut’ is going to be said. How far are we taking this? Are they going to call cut?”
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He went on: “The director would come back and say, ‘I think you need to orgasm sooner’. So your male machismo is like ‘No, no, no. It would take me much longer than this’. I’m sure that every actor says it, but it’s always slightly more complicated than it is in real life.”
For Ashton, he took sex scene advice from Sir Laurence Olivier at the time, admitting he “starts by apologising”. He said: “When in doubt, use Sir Laurence. He said something like ‘I apologise if I get aroused and I apologise if I do not get aroused’ and you have to say it with the accent.
“But there’s sort of always that kind of awkward state of like, ‘Is this OK? Is that OK?’ Then in between it’s like, ‘Let’s act like nothing happened’, and then you see how good an actor you are.”
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Things got even stranger, Ashton confessed to MTV, when “dirty feet” got involved in their racy scenes. He explained: “There were no major injuries. There was a dirty feet situation.
“Because the ground was dirty, and there was one scene where we both had our feet up, and they were showing in camera. We were walking around getting ready to do the scene, and the set floor was a little dirty, so we both had really dirty feet. That was weird, I don’t know why. No dirty feet in bed.”
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He went on: “It’s always sort of awkward and giggly, right? Because you’re there and you’re with someone you sort of know, and there’s a lot of people watching. It’s always kind of in-between scenes you try to make jokes and divert it, ‘Oh it’s not a big deal,’ try to make it seem like it’s not a big deal.”
At the time of filming, Ashton was in a secure marriage with his first wife Demi Moore, who he wed in 2005. But by 2013 the pair had called it quits and divorced, as Ashton went on to tie the knot with Mila Kunis in 2015. They share two children – daughter Wyatt and son Dimitri.
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