All the celebrities you never realised actually had sex on screen included in eye-opening list of movies
You might say that only a film fan of the highest calibre would click on an article like this.
A list of more than 270 films on movie review site Letterboxd has revealed just how many films feature unsimulated sex scenes, and some household name celebrities have had real sex on screen.
If you've ever watched any of these films, you'll realise why the intimate moments didn't look choreographed at all.
While some of the actors claim they felt pressured into the scenes by their directors and some harbour regrets over doing them, others insisted on doing the dirty for real, arguing simulating the scenes would be unconvincing.
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So with that in mind, here are all the A-listers/C-listers who you never realised had sex on camera.
After all, the list is always handy to be aware of if you're watching anything with your parents.
Robert Pattinson in Little Ashes
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While he's best known for being a sparkly vampire and emo Batman, Robert Pattinson has also had numerous edgy roles over the years - with the actor playing Spanish artist Salvador Dali in 2008's Little Ashes.
One particular scene has Pattinson pleasuring himself for real on camera as he believed that faking such things 'doesn't work' as far as authenticity goes.
Speaking to Interview magazine in Germany, he told them: "My orgasm face is recorded for eternity."
Aubrey Plaza in The To-Do List
During an interview with Conan, the Parks and Recreation star revealed that her role as Brandy in 2013's The To-Do List involved masturbating on camera.
"In my head I envisioned a nice scene where you just see my hand slowly go out of frame," Plaza said of shooting the scene.
"I thought I was doing one thing and when I showed up it was a whole different thing, it was a full body shot and I asked the director 'what should I do' and she said 'masturbate like it says in the script'."
Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg (body doubles) in Antichrist
If you've seen the 2009 movie, you'd be forgiven for thinking that you actually saw leading actors Dafoe and Gainsbourg having sex.
Indeed, unsimulated sex does happen in the film, but the bits you can't fake were actually performed by body doubles.
According to director Lars von Trier, Dafoe was 'too well endowed' - which he believed would leave audiences 'confused'.
However, this question was later put to Dafoe himself by Dazed, where he revealed the real reason they had doubles for the unsimulated sex scenes was that 'Charlotte and I are both married and I’m not sure everybody would be cool with that'.
Chloë Sevigny and Vincent Gallo in The Brown Bunny
2003's erotic drama The Brown Bunny was written, directed and produced by Vincent Gallo, who also starred in the flick opposite Sevigny for good measure.
The film proved to be highly controversial as it included a scene where Sevigny performs unsimulated oral sex on Gallo - a move which was received negatively at the time.
Sevigny would later reflect on the movie in a 2011 interview for Playboy, where she said the scene 'very complicated'.
She said: "There are a lot of emotions. I'll probably have to go to therapy at some point. But I love Vincent. The film is tragic and beautiful, and I'm proud of it and my performance.
"I'm sad that people think one way of the movie, but what can you do? I've done many explicit sex scenes, but I'm not that interested in doing any more.
"I'm more self-aware now and wouldn't be able to be as free, so why even do it?"
Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley in 9 Songs
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Widely considered to be the most sexually explicit films you'll see, 2004's 9 Songs sees actors Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley engage in multiple sex scenes.
Reflecting on the movie 20 years later, Stilley told LADbible that she stands by the film to this day, despite facing heavy backlash over the years.
“It's a shame that it's been torn apart into these little pieces and bastardised online, to be honest,” she said.
Lauren Lee Smith in Lie with Me
Her first reaction when her agent told her that her part in erotic 2005 drama Lie with Me would require not just nudity, but also live sex on camera, was to ask: "Are you kidding?"
As part of her audition she had a chemistry test with co-star Eric Balfour, and 'there was apparently chemistry', she told the Toronto Star.
Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance in Intimacy
The 2001 film Intimacy took the title quite literally, and in the film Rylance plays a bartender who ends up in a casual relationship with a mysterious woman, played by Fox.
In the movie, there was an unsimulated oral sex act and Rylance said the film was the 'most difficult job' he took in large part due to that scene.
He said: "I was convinced it was a vital story about the difficulties people face finding intimacy in a big city like London.
"Hanif Kureishi's writing couldn't have been more intimate and revealing, but I found the making of the film and the subsequent publicity and personal attacks very, very painful. I wish I hadn't made it."
He said he felt 'undue pressure' from director Patrice Chéreau to do the scene and thought that at the time he lacked the confidence to say no.
For her part, Fox said doing the film was 'not one of her regrets'.
Nymphomaniac (body doubles)
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Shia LaBeouf would claim Nymphomaniac basically had a disclaimer 'that basically says we're doing it for real' - however, the film wasn't as x-rated as it seemed behind-the-scenes.
Movie producer, Louise Vesth, would later explain to The Hollywood Reporter that body doubles were used for the sex and digitally imposed that over the actors.
"We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body doubles, who really did have sex, and in post (production) we will digital-impose the two,” she explained.
"So above the waist it will be the star and then below the waist it will be the doubles."
Additional words by Brenna Cooper.
Topics: Sex and Relationships, Film, TV and Film, Celebrity
Anish Vij