Singing show tunes always lightens the mood, doesn't it?
Just ask Luke Evans and Haley Bennett—the two belted out Broadway songs when they shot their steamy naked sex scenes in The Girl on the Train.
"When we were having sex, we were drunk—boy and girl drunk," Evans told me while promoting the new thriller. "I thought we should have a little drink just to take the edge off."
No, they weren't completely smashed! Evans said they just sipped on some Bourbon and Cokes.
"We were tipsy," Evans said. "We were show-tunes-singing-drunk while having fake sex. We sang Lion King."
Bennett did remember the singing, but her memories are a bit different.
"It wasn't the Lion King!" she said. "He has a false recollection. It was his own movie. It was Beauty and the Beast. We were singing, 'I'm going to marry Belle.'" (Evans stars as Gaston in the upcoming live action adaptation of the hit Disney musical.)
Whatever they sang, the scenes were still pretty naughty.
"It's not easy," Evans admitted. "It's not a comfortable situation, but it also depends on the other person. Haley's a true professional. She threw herself into it, as did I. We knew what he had to do. It's not a big deal and it is what it is and by the time we had to do it for a third time with a different setting, that was the steamiest one in the shower, you just get on with it. You suck it up."
Bennett explained, "You do talk with your scene partner and you're like, 'OK, you're going to cover me here and my nudity rider says this...' It's very technical and boring."
You can check out The Girl on the Train when it hits theaters on Oct. 7.
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