Anna Paquin gave a new interview on what it was like being directed by her husband, Stephen Moyer, during sex scenes.
One of the episodes that Stephen directed was the Season 7 opener, which involved a sex scene between Anna and Joe Manganiello’s werewolf character. “Steve directed us in a rather explicit sex scene,” Anna told the New York Post. “So when you ask if it is awkward to shoot a movie with your husband, the bar for awkward is set terribly high in our household — not to mention on that show in general.”
Of course, the two got used to Anna having different on-screen romances throughout their run, with Anna joking, “By Season 3 or 4, it would be like, ‘Hi honey, who are you fucking on camera today?’”
Stephen also recalled a moment when Anna, Alex Skarsgard, himself, and another actor were walking out of their trailers in their dressing gowns. He said, “It got to a point where I was about to go to one stage and Anna and Alex to another and I was just like, ‘Go for it, guys, good luck, have a good time, make it look good.’”
The two are working together again on the new movie, A Bit of Light. Stephen said of their work together, “One of the great joys of working with Anna is that I think she’s a brilliant, genius actor. But we also have a shorthand. We don’t talk about [a scene] the night before like, ‘Right, tomorrow, this is what we’re going to do.’ We sort of skirt around that because we have a deep understanding of each other as performers and we trust each other.”
A Bit of Light is in select theaters April 5.