Olivia Colman revealed how she used sponge during sex scene with Emma Stone that left her 'horrified'
Topics: Emma Stone, Celebrity, Film and TV, Graham Norton
Niamh Shackleton
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Topics: Emma Stone, Celebrity, Film and TV, Graham Norton
Olivia Colman revealed a bit of a prank she played on her The Favourite co-star Emma Stone as the pair filmed a sex scene together - but it turns out Stone remembers what happened a little differently.
In the 2018 movie, Colman played Queen Anne and Stone starred as a chambermaid named Abigail.
The Favourite saw Colman take home a handful of awards, including an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Actress. Another award she should have won though was for most imaginative way to use a sponge on set...
Anyone who is a fan of Colman knows that she's no stranger to mischief and is quite the potty-mouth — in one interview she revealed that her favorite swear word is the C-bomb.
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Basically, the actress has zero filter (in the best way), and on an episode of The Graham Norton Show that she was a guest on around the time of the release of The Favourite, she recalled using a sponge in a very intimate way with La La Land star Stone.
Ahead of filming a racy scene with Stone, Colman admitted had she rushed to the make-up department to see if they had a spare sponge she could use.
In the particular scene, Stone's character has to 'finger' Colman – as she put it to Norton and the rest of the celebrity guests.
Stone was a bit nervous about filming the saucy moment in case she stumbled across something she shouldn't have (if you catch my drift). So, in a bid to prevent this happening, Colman put a sponge between her legs.
Little did Stone know that the sponge was wet, however...
"Her face was a picture," Colman said. "She was going up my leg and she went 'urgh!'"
After Colman's comment gained traction, Stone was also asked about the moment on The Jonathan Ross Show.
She said: "She tells the story as if it was a surprise, but I asked for that sponge.
"I gotta diddle Olivia Colman in the movie right, and so I have to reach up her skirt. And there's just nothing there, and you have to kind of move your arm as if something's happening.
"So we put a damp sponge... and then I just sort of had to fondle a sponge."
Since her comments, Colman has admitted that she's actually scared of filming sex scenes.
Colman, who first found stardom on the British sitcom Peep Show, said that some scenes can make her feel as if she's being unfaithful to her husband. She has been married to Ed Sinclair since 2001.
Speaking on Good Hang with Amy Poehler, the 52-year-old shared last year: "Anything where I have to show any skin, I don't like. Or pretending to have sex... I don't like it. I feel like I'm being unfaithful."
She added: "Even when they go, 'You can wear your jeans,' or a cushion between you. I don't want to do that."
While some films carefully craft scenes just for the camera, others actually involve the real deal and feature unsimulated sex scenes.
Vincent Gallo wrote, directed and starred in his 2003 film The Brown Bunny alongside Chloë Sevigny.
A scene that drew significant controversy at the time shows Sevigny’s character performing unsimulated oral sex on Gallo, something the actor later said was 'very complicated'.
In 2001, she told Playboy that the scene elicited 'a lot of emotions', adding: "I'll probably have to go to therapy at some point."
However, Sevigny went on to say: "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?"
In 2008’s Little Ashes, Robert Pattinson starred as Spanish artist Salvador Dalí and, in one scene, actually pleasured himself on camera.
The actor later told Interview magazine his orgasm face was 'recorded for eternity'.
Unable to fake it, Pattinson added: "Try it. I can tell you right now, no chance. It just doesn’t work.
"So I rubbed one out in front of the camera."
In an interview with Conan O'Brien, Aubrey Plaza said that she originally thought her hand would just 'slowly go out of frame' as her character got to know her body in The To-Do List.
However, when she showed up on the set of the 2013 flick, it was a 'whole different thing'.
She recalled: "I asked the director 'What should I do?' and she said, 'Masturbate like it says in the script.'"
2004's 9 Songs sees Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley engage in several sex scenes - something the latter has defended.
Addressing the heavy backlash the film received, Stilley told LADbible: "It's a shame that it's been torn apart into these little pieces and bastardised online, to be honest."
In the 2001 release Intimacy, the actors take part in an unsimulated oral sex scene.
Looking back, Mark Rylance revealed it was the 'most difficult job' he's taken on in his career.
He explained: "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."
Kerry Fox, on the other hand, said it was 'not one of her regrets'.