SEX? DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH!

Nicholas said raunchy scenes in The Great cracked him up

ACTOR Nicholas Hoult says he finds sex scenes “very difficult” to film and often bursts into fits of giggles during takes.

Nicholas, 30, found it tough to keep a straight face in his love scenes with Elle Fanning in the Hulu series The Great, in which she stars as Catherine the Great and he plays her husband Peter III.

In an interview he told how in many of the sex scenes, Peter is either spouting outlandish dirty talk or not paying much attention.

He said: “They’re very difficult to do because they are very funny, and just ridiculous.

“And already, you’re in a slightly uncomfortable position doing that.

“But then add the sprinkle of hilarity on top of that and it becomes very difficult not to start giggling. And I giggle a lot. So that was trouble for me.”

Nicholas added that sometimes he’d break because of something funny happening within the scene.

He said: “It just makes me go, and then I’m like, ‘ Right Elle, I can’t look at you for the next take, I’m afraid.

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“So I’m just going to kind of slightly just look just left of your eyeball and now I’ll focus there and maybe then I won’t laugh so much’.”

He added that the sex scenes were often written to be “offbeat”.