Riley Keough Said Filming a Sex Scene With Her Husband Was ‘Awkward’

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says, shooting a sex scene with your real-life spouse is a better idea in theory than in reality. Promoting her new series on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Keough explained that the show's producers “thought it would be so funny” if her character's one-night-stand was played by Keough's actual husband, Ben Smith-Petersen.

Unfortunately, the intimate scene didn't go quite as smoothly as anticipated.“I think that they were thinking that it would be less awkward,” Keough told Meyers, “And then we got there and we were like, ‘This is really uncomfortable.’” She added, laughing, “For one, I've never had pretend sex with my husband.” The actor explained that normally for a scene like this, she'd meet her acting partner and then just get down to business like professionals. “But with him, it was just like…we were just giggling the whole time.” Because Keough's character (spoiler alert!) isn't supposed to be enjoying herself in the scene, Keough told Meyers she had to fight the impulse to assure everyone else in the room that, “in real life it's not like this!”, has been married to stuntman Smith-Petersen since 2015, according to .

The couple first met while filming Mad Max: Fury Road in 2012, and .“When I met my husband, he came out of the gas station on our second date and I thought, ‘I’m going to marry him and have kids with him,'” Riley Keough said on .

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