Kate Winslet and James Gandolfini in Romance and Cigarettes
Even director John Turturro thought that Kate Winslet and James Gandolfini were getting a bit too heated during their romantic scenes... He actually went ahead of separately filmed them! "So I decided to take James out of the scene and I put Kate on a big bouncy ball and just had her bounce and look around. The problem was how to connect them so when it was James' turn, he pretended to have sex and I threw Kate's wig around...so if you watch the scene, they're completely free, but they're not in the same room together."
Ben Affleck in Live By Night
Actor and director Ben Affleck ended up having full and complete control over his sex scenes in Live By Night, since, you know, he had to direct it himself. "We had these montages of sex scenes and in my mind—I was thinking, Well, we're just going again, like without yelling 'cut'; we'll just keep going. And finally, Sienna just started laughing and said, 'Who do you think you are? How many times can one man climax?!'"
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