Not one to censor couples if they get a little left field, there was a point when Lee stroked a knife out to her throat, which kind of got me timid but still excited because I was filming a couple who were now in their zone at the exclusion of all others. I can imagine that they must have epic sessions from time to time and no doubt punctuate their relationship with some tender loving other times. You can tell just being around them how comfortable they are. It was more a question of unlearn what you have learned, which I brought up in our conversation beforehand, because as a producer they were hoping to do what ever I wanted them to do, and if this is not how it was to be, I explained to them. They even asked me how hard can they go? As hard as you fucking want to, or if you want to do soft and vanilla, this is cool with me also.
They were charged mentally for sex, it didn’t matter to them where they went. Lets put it this way, for how the shoot went, you couldn’t script real life 30 minutes from now, and that is the journey we were to go on up to an hour after shooting. It was sexy, fraught with psychology, sweaty. Keira was dripping… I love a woman who sweats and with her make up running down her face. There was no pattern to what they did, a kiss here, a slap there (from both parties may I add), some domestic battle of wills whose the daddy/ mummy stuff. It was so real for me I didn’t have to be there. But it helps that I am very familiar with Keira, and although this is my first time working with Lee, I think he trusted me by being himself. I can see why Keira is with him for sure and it was definitely a high energy performance they both put in and I hope they are proud of too.
