Jacob Elordi explains what filming sex scenes with Margot Robbie was actually like
Jacob Elordi has spoken about filming sex scenes with Margot Robbie for Wuthering Heights, a film which is actually not as explicit as you'd expect given the marketing.
The film based on the book by Emily Brontë about two fairly awful people who indulge in a passionate but unhealthy love and ruin the lives of several other people as a result.
Audiences might have expected a particularly racy affair, then, but there aren't actually any nude scenes in the film, but even still there are some moments which rival the more x-rated bits of Saltburn.
Elordi has spoken about what's involved with filming intimate scenes with his Wuthering Heights co-star Robbie as he told The Sun the actors had chemistry right from the start.
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"It’s like, ‘Action’ and it’s like a horse at the race track - straight out of the gates," the Australian actor said.
According to Elordi, filming a sex scene is 'no different to choreographing a fight scene or a dance sequence' as he's got to get the moves right and make sure the camera sees what it's supposed to.
He said: "It’s super-technical, especially the scene where, it’s not a sex scene, but where I’m on top with my hands - that’s choreographed because, in that kind of light, you only have so much space to move.
"So what you do has to fit in the frame and work with the lighting.
"If you have the opportunity to share a film set with Margot Robbie, you’re going to make sure you’re within five to ten metres at all times."
Many actors have spoken about how filming sex scenes can be one of the least pleasurable parts of the job as some of them don't feel comfortable doing it and there's a reason there are intimacy coordinators to make sure everyone involved is alright with what's happening.
Robbie has said that she was 'weak at the knees' at times while filming Wuthering Heights as she gets 'so co-dependent with people I work with' and got used to having Elordi around.
They did change things up for the movie as in the original Wuthering Heights book despite all the passion between Cathy and Heathcliff it ends up being unrequited as they end up with other people, so they altered that.
Reviews for the movie have been mixed as it currently stands at 59 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and LADbible's resident film fanatic was of the opinion that Elordi's attempt at a Yorkshire accent 'ruined the film'.
Topics: Jacob Elordi, Margot Robbie, Film
Joe Harker