10 Movies Where The Stars Actually Had Real Sex Onscreen

We don't want to promote what is what."Producer Louise Vesth explained to the Hollywood Reporter prior to the film's release that the production had the stars simulate their sex scenes, then brought in body doubles to film the same sex scenes unsimulated. “So above the waist, it will be the star, and below the waist, it will be the doubles,” Vesth said.The production originally presented itself like a straightforward, albeit sexy take on Roman history, but once production wrapped and director Tinto Brass and his acclaimed stars went home, Guccione sneaked back onto the set with a crew of Penthouse pets and filmed a bunch of orgiastic scenes featuring real, unsimulated sex and added them throughout the final film.The released film — now bloated to nearly three hours — did very well in Italian theaters before it was confiscated by authorities for being obscene. "We wanted to do cultural terrorism in a funny way," he said.The film became a hit across America in underground theaters, although it was declared illegal in places like Hicksville, New York, and Switzerland.The graphic sex scene in the supernatural thriller — featuring what appeared to be oral sex performed by Sutherland — was buzzed about even before the film's release, and director Nicolas Roeg had to edit it in a fragmented manner to enable the film to receive an R rating in the US. For years after the film's release, rumors swirled about the scene, with some saying that Christie's then-boyfriend Warren Beatty lobbied to get the sex scene cut out of the film, and others saying that there was unedited footage of the scene floating around Hollywood that clearly showed they were having intercourse.Finally, in 2011, former movie executive and Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart released a memoir entitled Infamous Players, in which he says that he was on the set and saw the much-ballyhooed scene being filmed.