Russell Tovey on how ‘graphic’ gay sex scenes in Plainclothes differ from Looking’s
Looking star Russell Tovey has teased details about his upcoming film Plainclothes, a queer romantic thriller, which will include sex scenes the actor has described as “graphic”.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the English actor spoke about how he and co-star Tom Blyth approached filming the challenging scenes, saying: “It was like choreography, but it was so poetic… It’s a lot to ask of actors to do. The stuff that we are doing in it is so graphic — you know what’s happening. It’s beautifully filmed and it’s romantic.”
Tovey, who has also appeared in Feud: Capote vs The Swans and American Horry Story: NYC, had high praise for his co-star. “There’s a lot of trust needed to create the dynamic that me and Tom have, and I think we both really committed to that straight away.”
Tovey similarly spoke in praise of the film’s intimacy coordinator who he described as “phenomenal”. The star also recalled other projects he starred in prior to the proliferation of hiring intimacy coordinators to oversee the filming of sex scenes.
“Throughout Looking we didn’t have anything — we all loved each other and trusted each other,” he said. “But in so many things I’ve done, I’ve literally just turned up and I’m in a room and suddenly I’m fucking someone in a bed. And you’re like, Oh, okay. You just get on with it and you have to look at the other person and go, ‘Are you okay? I’m okay. Right, let’s keep going.’”
Blyth, who viewers will recognise from starring opposite Rachel Zegler in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, also recently championed the film’s intimacy coordinator, Joey Massa, describing her as “amazing” in an interview with Variety.
“Sometimes I feel [intimacy coordinators] are called in when the scene isn’t even that intimate just because everyone these days is rightfully trying to correct the course and make sure that everyone’s protected,” Blyth told the publication. “Sometimes you’ll have a kissing scene and you go, ‘We probably know how to do this.’ But this was genuinely intimate stuff. It was really intimate, really vivid, and Joey was incredible.”
“It felt very organic,” he went on, adding “it felt like we rehearsed it in a way where I think Russell and I both were made to feel confident and comfortable enough that we could lead it.”
Plainclothes, which follows a cop in 1990s America who goes undercover to entrap gay men cruising but ends up falling for one of the men he’s following, premiered this month at the Sundance Film Festival. Reviews have described it as “sexy and gentle” and “steamy”.
A global release date is yet to be announced.
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