Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg appeared in a rather raunchy film back in 2013 that featured unsimulated sex – and she was “uncomfortable” at first.
The British star had a main role in the controversial flick Nymphomaniac, alongside Shia LaBeouf, William Dafoe and Mia Goth. Playing shame-fuelled sex addict Joe, Charlotte had her fair share of racy on-screen moments.
From threesomes to getting spanked, the actress got down and dirty plenty of times within the flick’s runtime. What’s more, the movie also included unsimulated romping scenes.
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That meant hiring porn doubles on some occasions, and in others allowing the lead actors to take the lead. And although Charlotte didn’t have to engage in real sex, it didn’t stop her from feeling “uncomfortable.”
Speaking to IndieWire, the star recalled how although she had done raunchy scenes in the past, she still found them difficult. “I am uncomfortable being naked. Also, I had just had a child and I was very embarrassed by the way I looked,” she said.
“But when I come into the part, I don’t have that much nakedness to perform. All the beautiful sex is done by Stacy and I do all the nasty stuff that comes after.”
The actress also spoke out about what the most “humiliating” scene was to film for the racy movie – and it involved performing fellatio on a fake penis.
She told Vanity Fair: “I think, just in regards to the sexual things, the fellatio was hardest, because it’s very intimate and there was something quite humiliating about the whole thing.” Charlotte revealed it was “not on a real d**k” and porn actors did most of the heavy lifting when it came to sex scenes.
The movie Nymphomaniac was filmed in two parts, premiering at Cannes Film Festival more than a decade ago. The first volume starred Shia LaBeouf as Jerôme and Stacy Martin as Joe, the younger version of Charlotte’s character in Volume II.
But for Stacy, who was a relatively unknown actress at the time, it proved difficult to get over her nerves in the build-up to the racy sex scenes. Any actual intercourse involved porn actors as body doubles – but up until that point, it was all down to the A-listers to set the scene.
Stacy explained to The Independent: “What scared me wasn’t the nakedness but it was interacting naked. Shia was very professional but we didn’t actually do anything sexual. That was left to the porn doubles. It’s a totally different industry. The porn stars finish the job off for you. I never thought I’d meet my porn double.”
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