Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal star in the upcoming movie All Of Us Strangers and the film’s director is opening up about their sex scenes.

Here’s the synopsis: “One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (a screenwriter, played by Scott) has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where it appears his long-dead parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died thirty years before.”

Weekend and Looking: The Movie director Andrew Haigh is the writer and director of the new film and he’s talking about the “fearless” way Paul and Andrew shot those intimate moments.

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“There was chemistry between the two of them literally the second I saw them together,” Haigh told Vanity Fair. “Both of them were pretty fearless. There was no sense of them being afraid of approaching those scenes. They knew how important they were.”

Haigh‘s approach with the scenes were different than his past projects. He said, “I’ve been more objective in how I’ve shot sex scenes in the past. Here, I really wanted to feel the subjective nature of having sex and what it feels like — the nervousness and the excitement and the physical sensation of being touched by someone else, and what that does to you.”

He also talked about casting Andrew, an openly gay actor, in the movie.

“I’m not one of those people who thinks you have to cast a queer actor in a queer role, but for this role, I did want to because I was trying to unpick some nuances of a certain generation of gay people,” he said. “I needed someone that could understand that and have those conversations with me. I didn’t want it to feel like I was trying to explain what it was like…I make no bones about the fact that this is a specific experience I’m telling, of a man in his late 40s who’s gay. I’m trying to tell something that I understand, that is my experience of the world, and that is authentic to me.”

The film will be released in theaters on December 22, 2023.

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