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February 18, 2023 | 6:12 a.m
Alison Brie and husband Dave Franco on the set of the Amazon Studios film Somebody I Used to Know. Instagram/alisonbrie
Once Alison Brie and Dave Franco step onto the set, it’s all business.
The actress has opened up about having her husband direct her sex scenes with Jay Ellis in her new movie Somebody I Used to Know.
While for many couples the prospect of seeing your partner get intimate with someone else is the idea of living hell, for Brie and Franco it’s just another day at the office.
“I know it sounds wild, but we’re actors, that’s our job,” she told Jezebel. “Actually, it’s not that strange. And with something like that, because it’s our baby that we made together, I think our first priority is always just the movie.”
“Does the scene feel right and good? We don’t want my romantic scenes with me [costar Jay Ellis] to play awkwardly or strangely in any way.”
Brie and Dave Franco at the premiere of “Somebody I Used To Know” held at the Culver Theater in Culver City, California on February 1, 2023. Variety via Getty Images
The 40-year-old “Mad Men” star said she and her husband have “worked together enough now” to be comfortable enough to experience hot sex scenes in front of each other.
“The second film we ever did together as actors was Jeff Baena’s ‘The Little Hours,’ and in that film Dave has make out or sex scenes with three other actors and I,” Brie explained. “Well, I just feel like the patch was torn.”
In addition to 2017’s The Little Hours, the couple also starred in The Disaster Artist, The Rental, and most recently Horse Girl.
Franco and Brie at IMDb Studio during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2017 in Park City, Utah.Rich Polk
The couple became engaged in August 2015 after Franco popped the all-important question with a rose-cut sparkler by Irene Neuwirth. They secretly tied the knot in 2017.
Earlier this month, Brie opened up about the process she and Franco go through to get the best shot possible in a scene.
Brie explained the “hands-on” approach to that “Dave sits at the computer while I pace the room, bouncing off the walls, trying to make dinner.”
“Then I ask her what she would say in that scenario and she starts improvising and acting it out,” Franco, 37, chimed in, adding, “I write down every word that comes out of her mouth, and we just go back and on that way.”
Franco and Brie attend the extended screening of IFC’s “The Rental” in City of Industry, California on June 18, 2020 at Vineland Drive-In in Los Angeles. Getty Images
The How To Be Single actress previously told People that she and Franco “usually have some kind of conversation” before taking on a project that requires a sex scene “just to give the other person a heads-up.”
“I think you don’t want to blind anyone with this information,” she told the outlet. “But at the same time it is part of our job. It’s a weird part and I can see it with the outside eye [it might come off].”
“We’re all professionals, and if we’re in character, that’s a whole separate thing,” she explained, adding, “It’s like we’re working in this weird job that only requires ultimate vulnerability in a moment. It is exactly what we signed up for.”
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