Olivia Colman admitted that she’s scared of sex scenes because it feels like she’s cheating on her husband Ed Sinclair.
The actress, 51, who has been married to Ed for 24 years, opened up about her relationship on the Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast.
The conversation about sex scenes came about as Olivia’s The Roses co-star, Benedict Cumberbatch, who had been on the podcast earlier in the episode, asked the actress what scared her about her job.
Olivia shared: ‘Anything where I have to show any skin, I don’t like. Pretending to have sex… I don’t like it. I feel like I’m being unfaithful.
‘Even when they go, “You can wear your jeans,” or a cushion between you. I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to do that.’
Olivia and Amy both applauded the actors who take on the task comfortably, with the hot saying: ‘The people that are good at it, I’ll watch them all day long, and they’re comfy. But the on-screen orgasm…’
Olivia Colman admitted that she’s scared of sex scenes because it feels like she’s cheating on her husband Ed Sinclair
Olivia, who shares three children with Ed, replied: ‘No, absolutely not… Thank God for intimacy coordinators,’ before mentioning that she’s been told to just imagine the sun is hitting her face when she’s supposed fake an orgasm.
The actress went on to gush over her husband Ed, sharing: ‘He’s my best friend and I fancy him, which is quite nice,’ before showing Amy the tattoo she has of his name on her arm.
She added: ‘It is our 25th wedding anniversary next year. We aren’t big fighters, which apparently isn’t very healthy.’
Olivia said she ‘loved’ working with Benedict on The Roses and said ‘we had so much fun together’.
Dark divorce comedy, The Roses, is set for release August 29 and is based on 1981 novel, The War of the Roses and is a remake of the 1989 Hollywood classic.
The pair follow in the footsteps of Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and play a married couple whose increasingly bitter separation explodes into comically exaggerated resentment and hatred.
It is directed by Jay Roach, who previously worked on the Austin Powers comedies, and scripted by Poor Things writer Tony McNamara.
The cast also includes new Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa, and American comedians Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon.
Filming took place in both Salcombe, south Devon and Los Angeles, with the pair first seen on set on a beach in Devon in June last year.
The 1989 version was directed by Danny DeVito, who also starred as a divorce lawyer, reuniting a trio who had proved so successful in 1984 adventure Romancing The Stone and its sequel The Jewel Of The Nile.
The new version has been described as a ‘re-imagining’.
Producers Searchlight Pictures say of the plot: ‘Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Theo and Ivy: successful careers, great kids, an enviable sex life.
‘But underneath the facade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down.’
Sources say that despite the actors being ‘very keen’ to work together, all was not well during filming, with Benedict’s serious ‘method’ acting at odds with Olivia’s ‘no-nonsense, let’s get on with it’ attitude.
One insider told The Mail on Sunday: ‘The Roses was supposed to be a fairly easy and straightforward one to film – about a husband and a wife who don’t like one another.
The pair, follow in the footsteps of Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and play a married couple whose increasingly bitter separation explodes into comically exaggerated resentment
The 1989 version was directed by Danny DeVito (Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner pictured)
‘But at times Benedict was treating it like it was some kind of Shakespearean play, wanting to seriously connect with his part, which is totally fair enough.
‘Olivia is very much the type to just get on with it, no faffing. It’s a comedy – it’s like there was a lot of overthinking going on.
‘It led to the chemistry between them not exactly being the best. It was a comedy, like a romcom, not the airy fairy-type stuff Benedict has done before.’
A spokesman for Cumberbatch attempted to play down the issues between the pair.
