Saturday, July 9th 2011

“I did have a sex scene with Christian Bale, which I did to the best of my ability. It was great. We were at King’s Cross, we’re shooting this film Velvet Goldmine, and he plays a journalist and I was playing a kind of Iggy Pop type rock star and we have a shag on top of a rooftop in King’s Cross. But they wanted to shoot it from another rooftop, just kind of a wide shot. We did some close-up stuff but this was a wide shot.
And Todd Haynes, the director, and he – I don’t know – we had to kind of [shouts] ”Action!”, so we started to quite slowly… [Ewan stands up and thrusts his hips] with Batman like that. And the film crew are on the other side, and it went on and on.
And then I just thought I’d have come by now, so I went round to the other side of his ear, non-camera side and I went “I think I would have come by now”. And then I said “I’m going to have a look”. And I looked over and they were packing up.”
- Ewan McGregor
I’ve heard this story before, but not quite as graphic, or with Ewan calling Christian Batman while thrusting his hips.

“I did have a sex scene with Christian Bale, which I did to the best of my ability. It was great. We were at King’s Cross, we’re shooting this film Velvet Goldmine, and he plays a journalist and I was playing a kind of Iggy Pop type rock star and we have a shag on top of a rooftop in King’s Cross. But they wanted to shoot it from another rooftop, just kind of a wide shot. We did some close-up stuff but this was a wide shot.

And Todd Haynes, the director, and he – I don’t know – we had to kind of [shouts] ”Action!”, so we started to quite slowly… [Ewan stands up and thrusts his hips] with Batman like that. And the film crew are on the other side, and it went on and on.

And then I just thought I’d have come by now, so I went round to the other side of his ear, non-camera side and I went “I think I would have come by now”. And then I said “I’m going to have a look”. And I looked over and they were packing up.”

- Ewan McGregor

I’ve heard this story before, but not quite as graphic, or with Ewan calling Christian Batman while thrusting his hips.

Tag(s): Best story ever!

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    Velvet goldmine Haynes/Bale/McGregor_1998 via bohemea:
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    I don’t even like Velvet Goldmine, but I like this story.
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    I love them both.
  18. arcadiaego reblogged this from suicideblonde and added:
    I have heard this story more times than one person probably should have in their lifetime. :-P
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    Oh, this is beautiful.
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