Henry Cavill says he doesn’t ‘understand’ sex scenes: ‘I’m not a fan’

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Henry Cavill has opened up about his basic dislike of sex scenes in movie and tv.

The 40-year-old actor made the remarks whereas showing on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast along with his Argylle director Matthew Vaughn.

Argylle, launched final week (2 February), casts Cavill as a fictional spy invented by a best-selling writer whose creations start to reflect real-life espionage operations.

“I don’t understand them – I’m not a fan,” Cavill mentioned about sex scenes. “I think there are circumstances where a sex scene actually is beneficial to a movie, rather than just the audience, but I think sometimes they’re overused these days.

“It’s when you have a sense where you’re going, ‘Is this really necessary or is it just people with less clothing on?’” he continued. “And that’s when you start to get more uncomfortable and you’re thinking, ‘There’s not a performance here, there’s not a piece which is going to carry through to the rest of the movie’.”

Cavill went on to say that whereas there are occasions the place “sex scenes can be great in a movie” and “can really help with the story telling… most of the time the human imagination is going to trump it. So, it can be a little bit of a cop-out if a TV show or a movie is just filled with gyrating bodies and you’re going, ‘Okay, but what is this doing for us apart from the idea of, oh naked person, great’.”

“[I’m] not a fan of doing them,” he reiterated.

Cavill is among a small minority of actors who have admitted their reluctance to film sex scenes.

Last year, You star Penn Badgley revealed that a “phenomenal reduction” in intimate scenes was made at his request for the Netflix drama’s fourth season.

“This was actually a decision I had made before I took the show,” he mentioned on his podcast, Podcrushed; “Do I want to put myself back on a career path where I’m always [the] romantic lead?”

Badgley added: “Fidelity, in every relationship, and especially my marriage, is important to me.”

Jameela Jamil later admitted to Badgley in an interview that she handed on auditioning for You because of the sex scenes it required.

“My character was supposed to be quite sexy, and I pulled out of the audition, because I am so shy about anything sexy that I can’t,” she mentioned.

Argylle debuted with simply $18m in ticket gross sales on the US field workplace on Sunday towards a $200m finances. Vaughn’s spy thriller, produced by Apple Studios, was largely panned by the critics.

The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey was among the many extra light critics, writing in her three-star evaluate, that Argylle was “pleasingly, surprisingly charming”.