Nic has the lust laugh

POOR Nicholas Hoult says working with your mates on set is all well and good – until you have to pretend to have sex with them and you can’t stop giggling.

The About A Boy actor, 30, admits that racy scenes with his friend Elle Fanning in their new series The Great, above, left him with a bad case of the giggles. ‘They’re very difficult because they’re very funny and ridiculous,’ says Nicholas of his passionate scenes with Elle, 22. ‘You’re already in a slightly uncomfortable position doing that, and it becomes difficult not to start giggling.’ A lover who can’t stop laughing? It’s enough to give Elle a complex...