Al Pacino has revealed a sex scene he didn't particularly enjoy filming during his career, as well as revealing his thoughts on intimate moments in the film industry.
The legendary actor spoke about the scene in his recent memoir Sonny Boy, which details his life.
Pacino has been in the news a fair amount recently considering the actor doesn’t have a movie out this year.
Whether it be tales from his memoirs, his Shrek phone case, or his recent split from his girlfriend 50+ years his junior, Pacino has managed to find his way into the headlines with consistency.
Al Pacino has revealed his thoughts on sex scenes in films (Dimitrious Kambouris via Getty Images)
He has done so again, by saying that most love making scenes nowadays are ‘borderline porn’.
Now to be clear, this is not a rehash of the most inane debate of all time: whether or not sex scenes should be in films.
Whilst this may be the flavour of the week on Twitter to debate with regularity, Pacino’s opinion is a tad more thoughtful than that.
He said in his memoir, according to Entertainment Weekly: “I'm not usually one to perform graphic lovemaking scenes, and I don't think many other actors like to do them either. It can become sort of borderline porn."
He went on touch upon a sex scene he filmed with Ellen Barkin for Sea of Love in 1989.
He said: “Though I had played romantic leads in other movies [1989 film Sea of Love], became renowned for a long, slow sex scene where Ellen Barkin holds me against a wall and gives me a bit of a pat-down before our two characters start going at it."
The film has several sex scenes between the pair (Universal Pictures)
Despite not being a fan of filming intimate scenes, Pacino said that ‘the scene was brilliantly choreographed’ and was full of praise for director, Harold Becker.
"I realize it is futile for me to complain that we're no longer in an age of movies like A Place in the Sun, where Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift could have an entire audience swooning in their seats without ever showing their naked bodies," he added.
While Pacino was positive about his experience with Becker, however, Barkin has in the past made very serious accusations of the director.
She previously spoke about how a recent experience on Poker Face with Rian Johnson was the first time she felt comfortable on a film set.
Ellen Barkin on the SAG-AFTRA picket line last year (John Nacion via Getty Images
Filming Sea of Love and her experience with Becker was brought up in the context of harassment she’s faced throughout her career.
She describes how, when filming the 1989 film, she was at one point fully naked on set save for an artificial covering known as a merkin which covered her private parts.
She said of her time on the set of the film: “What was I going to do when Harold Becker on Sea of Love walks over and literally rips my merkin off, taking some pubic hair with him, and saying: 'What do you need this for? Nobody's looking at you'."
LADbible group has contacted Harold Becker and Al Pacino for a comment.
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