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Neck injuries, bruises and back pain!
We all know - or at least we can imagine - that filming a sex scene is not exactly easy… but getting injured or having an accident while shooting for the cameras is NEXT level! For these stars things went badly between the sheets when they had to act erotic... (©BANG Showbiz)
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Nikolaj Coster Waldau
In 2014, actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, 52, appeared in an episode of ‘Chelsea Lately’, where he talked about his movie ‘The Other Woman’… specifically about a little accident he had while shooting a sex scene alongside Kate Upton, 30. In the scene, she was supposed to spank him with a whip… but she took direction too well and left him with a painful buttock bruise! He said: “I think she hasn’t seen them yet. I hope she’s okay with this.” (©BANG Showbiz)
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Taylor Schilling
Taylor Schilling, 38, is best known for playing Piper Chapman in Netflix series ‘Orange is the New Black’. For the show she had to film several steamy scenes for the show, most of them alongside co-star Laura Prepon, 43, who plays her love interest Alex. In a 2015 appearance on ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’, Schilling recalled how she got hurt while shooting one specific sequence. She said: “I hurt myself. I got very excited. I took my shirt off, and I scratched myself with my little nametag. There was a gash on my face. There was blood. We had to take like an hour-long pause.” (©BANG Showbiz)
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Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie, 32, played Naomi Lapaglia in Martin Scorsese’s film ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, 48, as her lover and then husband Jordan Belfort. The intimate scene where their characters make love on a pile of cash, was actually physically painful for the actress. In 2017 she told The Daily Beast: “I got a million paper cuts on my back from all that money! It's not as glamorous as it sounds. If anyone is ever planning on having sex on top of a pile of cash - don't. Maybe real money is a bit softer, but the fake money is like paper, and when I got up off the bed, I turned around to get my robe and everyone gasped.” (©BANG Showbiz)
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Robert Pattinson
Julianne Moore, 62, and Robert Pattinson, 36, starred in the 2014 film ‘Maps to the Stars’, in which their characters share a racy scene. For Pattinson things were not as easy as they were for Moore. Speaking to Heat magazine, Robert recalled: “It was the first time I’d met Julianne as well. It was so hot in Toronto and she’s one of these people – she doesn’t sweat at all! But I sweat like a crazy person. I was trying to literally catch drops of sweat to stop them hitting her back. Afterwards, she was like, ‘Are you having a panic attack?’ It was so embarrassing.” (©BANG Showbiz)
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Allison Janney
Academy Award winner Allison Janney made her sex scene debut on the 2009 film ‘Life During Wartime’, in which she starred with Michael Lerner, 81. Things did not go as planned as someone had a small accident! Speaking to PEOPLE, the 63-year-old actress said: “We had to have sex up against a wall and they started spraying us with glistening stuff to make us look sweaty, but no one seemed to realize that we were standing on a marble floor. They said ‘action’ and he pulled me up against the wall and his feet slipped out from under him and he went crashing down on the floor.” Luckily nobody got hurt! (©BANG Showbiz)
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Dakota Johnson
Dakota Johnson, 33, had to shoot numerous sex scenes for the ’50 Shades of Grey’ franchise, in which she played Ana Steele, a woman discovering her sexuality with billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). The actress told Glamour that one such scene resulted in her getting a neck injury! She said: "I got whiplash once from him throwing me on the bed. So painful. I wish we had a gag reel from the shoot." (©BANG Showbiz)
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Alexander Skarsgard
Alexander Skarsgard, 46, and Margot Robbie, 32, starred in the action film ‘The Legend of Tarzan’. The actor ended up with a small bruise caused by a sex scene mishap. Director David Yates told Entertainment Weekly how things happened. He said: "They're doing this love scene together, and I said [to Robbie], 'Just slap Alex while you're making love, just kind of give him a punch.' It was sort of an earthy, sensual moment of her enjoying sex with Alex, and the only bruise he picked up during the entire shoot was probably that punch from Margot. Which says a lot about her feistiness!" (©BANG Showbiz)
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Diane Lane
Diane Lane, 58, shared acting credits with Olivier Martínez, 57, on ‘Unfaithful’ - and a particular steamy scene! Unfortunately, Lane ended up with a neck injury afterwards, which she talked about in an interview for Yahoo’s segment ‘Role Recall’ in 2015. She said: “Olivier was giving his all and he was giving me all of his body weight. And the camera had to see me. "So here we are, I’m trying to let the camera see me, and I’m holding him, and I have to come up and kiss him at the same time. I mean, we’ve must’ve done 50 takes. So my neck finally went out. And I didn’t know it till the next day.” (©BANG Showbiz)
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Viola Davis
In 2016, Viola Davis, 57, visited the set of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ and she talked about how she got injured filming a sex scene with Billy Brown, 52, on ‘How To Get Away With Murder’. She said: “Well, we really went for it. I said, ‘Listen, I’m always playing these maids, I always gotta gain 40 pounds for a role.’ I said, ‘I wanna be sexy. I’m pulling out all the stops.’ So, I went for it... and threw my back out!" (©BANG Showbiz)
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Anne Reid
The scar that actress Anne Reid, 81, ended up with after filming an intimate scene with Daniel Craig, 55, for 'The Mother' was emotional rather than physical. In an interview on Radio 4 show ‘Desert Islands Discs’, the actress recalled how the shoot became overwhelming. She said: “The night before I had a lot of drink on my own in the flat and I stripped and I stood in front of a mirror and thought, ‘Tomorrow I’m going to have to show this.’ And I started to cry and I thought, ‘Oh my good God, I can’t do this’. I rang my son and I was weeping and he said, ‘Look Mum, it’s a great part, if you’re inhibited it’s not going to work so just go for it.’” And so did she. Reid was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress in a Leading Role, as well as for a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress of the Year. She took home the latter. (©BANG Showbiz)
We all know - or at least we can imagine - that filming a sex scene is not exactly easy… but getting injured or having an accident while shooting for the cameras is NEXT level!
