Actor in X-rated movie with unsimulated sex act almost quit over explicit scenes

While it certainly might not be for everyone, X-rated films with unsimulated sex are a preferred art form for some.

And that includes controversial director Gaspar Noé, the controversial Argentinian-born, French-speaking filmmaker known for graphic sex and violence.

In 2015, he debuted Love at Cannes Film Festival and it was so intense it ended up being banned in some places with its age rating challenged.

While the unsimulated sex scenes may have been shocking enough, Noé ended up filming it in 3D, making the whole thing even more garish.

And lead actor, Karl Glusman thought about quitting over the erotic film’s explicit scenes with his first day of shooting being the notorious ejaculation moment.

Playing American aspiring filmmaker Murphy who welcomes a third into his relationship before finding out his girlfriend has cheated on him, he explained the director is a fan of ‘surprises’.

Starting filming, Noé apparently took the camera to Glusman’s waist and instructed he took his pants off.

“That was my ice breaker,” the actor told Variety.

With a lot of the film improvised and the stars not quite knowing what to expect, Glusman was asked if he ever considered quitting Love.

“I went to the bathroom to garner some courage. I looked in the mirror. It felt like the scene in Boogie Nights where he’s pumping himself up,” he recalled.

“I was like, ‘What are you doing?! This is not you. You can’t do this. You should run away.’ I definitely had a moment when my heart sped up, and I thought, ‘This is a huge f**kng mistake.’”

However, Glusman thought about the rest of the crew, not wanting ‘to let them down’.

“I think many young actors want to be daring,” he added. They want to surprise their fellow actors as well as their audiences.

In the film, Murphy says: "I want to make movies out of blood, sperm and tears". (Wild Bunch)

“I just thought, ‘If I don’t do this, someone else will, and I will regret it forever. I will be so jealous once the movie comes out that I didn’t have the balls to step up to the plate.’”

Noé was also previously asked about his decision to film the intimate scenes for real.

“In what you call ‘adult movies’ there are no feelings at all. You never see people kissing or talking about pregnancy,” he told the Irish Examiner.

“You never see any girl having her periods and you never see a girl with regular pubic hair. It’s like a separate world that has nothing to do with normal life.

“What I wanted to do is represent in cinema something that’s important for me that for commercial reasons isn’t represented properly.

"The system of cinema rating is totally old- fashioned.”

Love is available for rent or purchase on Prime Video in the UK, on Sky Store and Rakuten TV.