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Kristen Stewart Is ‘So Sick’ of ‘Run-of-the-Mill’ Sex Scenes Where Actors Do the ‘Just-Go-for-It Simulated Thing’: ‘That’s Not How People Have Sex’

Kristen Stewart thinks sex scenes are becoming too methodical in movies.

Stewart said the sex scenes in “Love Lies Bleeding” were more about “really nailing the details and talking about the physical experience more so than even seeing it, like verbalizing it, talking to each other, sharing space, having it not be cut up into a ton of different shots, it felt like…a really beautiful thing to deliver an experience that was, like, literal instead of faux.” During her Variety cover story in January, Stewart said the characters in the “Love Lies Bleeding” sex scenes “don’t take their clothes off, but this is going to shock people,” adding: “All you ever [usually] see is a dress coming up and a head going down under. She’s made a midnight noir that shoots over the top of our expectations but lands where it should, at a place where even valorous people have to go to extremes.

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