Well, now the actress has confessed how
hard it is for her to shoot this type of scene.
“I don't like it,
I don't like it,” she recently said at CinemaCon. "I'm actually thinking,
'Let's get this over with as soon as possible.'
Fortunately, this time Dunst returned to work under the direction of her great friend, Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides, Maria Antonietta).
Male directors always want to "shoot the scene from all angles," according to the actress. "At least Sofia says, 'Let's do it fast, let's shoot it here, do three takes and that's it.'
In the film – a remake of a 1971 film of the same name – Colin Farrell plays a Civil War soldier who is taken in at a girls' boarding school in Virginia, where the girls begin to fight each other to win over the newcomer. The cast is completed by Ellen Fanning and Nicole Kidman.
For his part, Farrell assures that he tried to be as
delicate as possible when shooting the love scenes.
"It's harder
for women," he says. “And in the history of cinema, women have been
exploited more, through sex, than men. So in any love scene I've had to be
in, I've tried to do whatever my female partner needed."
Adds Farrell, "I think the woman should be completely in charge
in those scenes, whatever it takes to make her feel comfortable and give her
the freedom to do the job that she has to do."
