Allison Williams finds sex scenes “awkward”.
The 28-year-old actress is no stranger to stripping her clothes off and getting intimate in front of the cameras for her role as Marnie Michaels on the HBO comedy Girls, and says despite being nervous about filming the racy shots, she believes they are “important” to the story and provide moments of “character discovery”.
She said: “I actually had more sex scenes than any of the other girls. Of course, they’re awkward — but the reason that they never loom in my calendar is because a) I have too many of them to fear them and b) they are hugely revealing about my character and important for the series thematically.
“Girls isn’t exploitative. It put into fashion the idea that a sex scene can also be a moment of character discovery.”
And the brunette beauty — who is married to entrepreneur Ricky Van Veen — praised Lena Dunham’s show for giving audiences a “realistic depiction of sex”.
She added: “You see our bodies in all of these weird positions and how different we are. Nobody is lit flatteringly. All of the sex scenes that I grew up watching were romantic and candlelit with music in the background. While filming for Girls, I’ve hit my nose on people; I’ve been bruised afterwards; my nipple cover ended up on Alex Karpovsky once. It’s a more realistic depiction of sex, and I actually think it’s more interesting.”
