%0D %0D No legitimate movie has the actors actually having sex. Maybe it happens in crummy independent films like 'Brown Bunny', but nowhere else. Real sex in movies is porno, a genre in and of itself. If you're talking about really good actors, I think it would be much more interesting to see them act having sex than actually having it. This is what Michael Caine says in 'Acting in Film' (p. I find the way to deal with love scenes is to be extremely professional about the whole thing: this is a job, this is what the two of us happen to have been asked to do-lie in bed naked-and it doesn't matter that we have never met before. Actually, you're rarely naked, but you do get into some intimate positions and, of course, you do kiss properly. My solution to the potential awkwardness is to joke about it a lot so that the actress I'm with is never under the impression that I'm getting off on it. The moment the director says 'Cut!' I make a joke to let the woman know that there was no real passion involved.
Such scenes could be embarrassing, but I've done them so often now that there's no sensuality in the process.
And then there's the problem for the actress she has to get herself into a frame of mind where she's able to let a strange man stroke her bum.