‘“Oh! Why, hello, sailor,” I thought to myself’. Naomi Watts has said a sex scene with her now-husband Billy Crudup was so steamy that it sparked their relationship. The Oscar-nominated actor, 54, spoke about the experience, revealing that it made her “blush” and “break character”.
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Watts opened up about her sex life and libido as part of her frank new book Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known about Menopause. “Billy and I chatted on set during lighting changes and I’d have said we were friendly,” Watts wrote. “But for a very long time, that was as far as it went. I was so closed off to love that in the months and months of shooting, even after we’d simulated sex on screen many times, dry-humping each other to the point of exhaustion, I hadn’t given romance with him a thought.”.
At the time, Watts had recently separated from her ex-husband, the American actor Liev Schrieber, whom she was with for 11 years. They share two children together. Watts said that she changed her mind about Crudup after filming a sex scene so steamy it made her “blush” and “break character”.
“Then one day during a sex scene, he spontaneously flung a pillow across the room while ravishing me with such passion that I blushed and broke character,” she wrote. ““Oh! Why, hello, sailor,” I thought to myself, and as me, not as the woman I was playing. Then: “Wait, that felt like… something.”.
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