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Caught In The Act
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| Sometimes screen sex is for real. Only the actors know for sure, and
Angelina Jolie isn't telling. Ali Catterall looks back over the history
of cinematic sex including all those rumours about who actually did the
deed on camera. |
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According to Mighty Aphrodite star Mira Sorvino, "It rarely happens that actors have proper sex in films. But it does, though, now and again. One actress told me she had made love during a very popular film. These people would not lie about their experiences."
Or would they? Ewan McGregor's angry denials that he and Nicole Kidman had indulged in a little ooh-la-la during the filming of Moulin Rouge sound convincing enough ("It's shite. I haven't f***ed Nicole"), but sex on and off camera is as old as Hollywood itself.
On one legendary occasion, producer Harry Joe Brown disturbed serial-seducer Bette Davis with her Dangerous co-star Franchet Tone, who was then attached to Joan Crawford. As author Andrea Love describes in 'Secret Sex Lives of the Rich And Famous', on opening the unlocked trailer door "the producer apologised, the actor laughed, and Davis returning to action, said 'Close the door as you go out.'"
Although Jagger's not actually in flagrante, "he's up and ready".
As Sorvino suggests, actual rumpy in movies is rare - but not unknown. Ai No Corrida, Baise-Moi, The Idiots and Romance all feature genuine sexual acts, though in most cases, as with Last Tango In Paris, it's all just smoke, mirrors and margarine. Even Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg's notorious knee-trembler in Nic Roeg and Donald Cammell's Performance has been revealed as something of an anti-climax. According to producer Sandy Lieberson, who owns the outtakes, although Jagger's not actually in flagrante, "he's up and ready". More noteworthy was the action happening off-set, with Cammell, Jagger, Pallenberg and her lover, Keith Richards, reputedly enmeshed in a real love quadrangle throughout the shoot.
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