He told Slant: 'Some things are real and some things are simulated in the movie, but it's not an issue as long as it looks real on screen. Though the masturbation scene is real (though Noe has admitted he added some fake extra ejaculate), the director has never reveled exactly which sex scenes are real and which were faked.

You should run away.' I definitely had a moment when my heart sped up, and I thought, 'This is a huge f***ing mistake.'' I was like, 'What are you doing?! This is not you. It felt like the scene in Boogie Nights, where he's pumping himself up. 'Love' on Netflix features a number of unsimulated sex scenes Wild BunchĪsked how he prepared for this, Glusman said: 'I went to the bathroom to garner some courage. But there is nothing that we shot that didn't seem natural when we were doing it. I didn't want to shoot the nude scenes over and over again, so for all the nude scenes, we had two camera positions for each scene so we had editing options. We didn't even rehearse before - the actors had never even kissed each other before we started. According to an interview between Noe and The Hollywood Reporter: 'We shot all the nude scenes the first week with a very small crew. If that was not intimidating enough, the two actors involved in the scene barely knew each other.

And he said, 'All right, take your pants off!' The scene was on the first day of shooting. The actor said: 'The first day of shooting, he said, 'It's time for your big close up!' He lowered the camera to my waist level and got the focus right. The latter, however, takes things much further than the former, with the French film from director Gaspar Noe featuring genuine unsimulated sex scenes right from the opening of the movie, which is a minutes-long masturbation scene ending in ejaculation.Īccording to star Karl Glusman, speaking to Variety, this masturbation scene was one of the first he shot on the film. Netflix has started to corner the market on movies with graphic sex scenes, with 365 Dni and now Love in the charts of the most-watch movies on the streamer.

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