*Viola Davis has had enough of Hollywood love scenes and now has a firm rule for filming future intimate moments.
During an appearance on Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast, the Oscar winner noted that sex scenes on screen are something she has grown to genuinely dislike. “I can’t stand watching them. I can’t stand doing them,” Davis said, per EW.
“I finally said after How to Get Away With Murder, I’m not doing any more love scenes anymore,” she declared. “I mean, that’s it. You write a love scene, I’m not doing it — unless you give me a boyfriend who has a stomach.”
Davis made clear that her condition is about more than comfort on set. In her view, pairing her with a scene partner who carries some extra weight would push writers to invest in the actual storytelling rather than filling screen time with physical display.
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“It won’t be about taking off the shirt and the six-pack abs,” she explained. She pointed to a specific scene on “How to Get Away With Murder” with costar Billy Brown as the kind of experience she wants to leave behind. Her character Annalise Keating “sleeps with a lot of people” on the show, making such scenes a recurring reality, and Davis described the film crew’s fixation on Brown’s physique during one particular shoot as “a freaking nightmare.”
“I’m lying down and everything, and then he gets up with his underwear, and they’re literally just taking his underwear down, putting his makeup on,” she recalled, referring to the film crew. “And he’s got his abs. And then they want him to walk into the bathroom and come out with one of those scrub brushes and slap it on his hand as if he’s slapping my a–. It’s a freaking nightmare.”
What she is really after, Davis said, is material with genuine emotional weight. “So I said, ‘If you write someone with a gut, maybe we won’t be in bed. Maybe it’ll be about everything else,'” she posed. “And then when we finally kiss, it’s like something that’s organically happening.”
The EGOT winner said she has one condition for filming future love scenes. “I just want to be on a bed and I don’t want to move. I don’t want anyone on top of me and I don’t want to be on top of anyone else,” Davis explained.
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