The behind-the-scenes stories of these iconic love scenes
Actors and actresses have admitted how they really felt when shooting the sex scenes to these films – and their experience is a lot different to what most viewers would think.
1. Titanic
Kate Winslet opened up to Rolling Stone about the love scene between her and now long-time friend Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. "Doing that scene — it so wasn’t us,” she said. " And yet we were so locked into what all that had to be about. The Rose in me was really sort of loving the Jack in him, actually. And even though I didn't feel that way about Leo, it was quite nice to sort of feel that way in the scene. It was quite lovely. And then, y'know, the camera stopped rolling, and he gets up and walks off, and the scene's done. And I remember lying there thinking, 'What a shame that's over.' Because it was quite nice. It was."
2. Ghost
Demi Moore revealed in an interview that the pottery wheel-based scene between her and Patrick Swayze involved more embarrassment than what some viewers may have thought. "[We] felt like we were in high school on a first date," the actress told PEOPLE. "And here we had to act like we had known each other and were comfortable with each other. We were all arms. His face was so beet red! I would say, 'Please don’t let my breast be exposed.' And he would say, 'Okay.' If he noticed my shirt coming up over my rear, he would pull it down. We finally just said, 'I'm really nervous and I hate this.' Then it was okay."
3. Pretty Woman
Julia Roberts told ABC News that she was so nervous about her sex scene with Richard Gere that she broke out in hives. "I had never done this kind of stuff before, and I was really nervous. And I get hives," Roberts told ABC News. "They say, 'kiss,' and I get a hive. But the funny thing is that we'd become such a family. This particular crew, we became so close to one another that by the time a scene like this came up, everyone knowing the way that I felt and my kind of value ideas about it, and then my own personal ideas about it, and my problems with it or what have you, that by the time we got down to anything that was a bit scary everybody was more nervous than I was."