--- title: Kirsten Dunst Talks Sex Scenes in 'The Beguiled' Film description: Find out what Kirsten Dunst said about filming sex scenes in 'The Beguiled.' canonical: https://time.com/4730818/kirsten-dunst-sex-scenes-beguiled/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-07T14:04:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:23.663Z og:title: Kirsten Dunst Talks About Filming Sex Scenes for 'The Beguiled' og:description: 'Let's get this over with as fast as possible' og:url: https://time.com/4730818/kirsten-dunst-sex-scenes-beguiled/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c3cb8a84fea4172/6988c1dacf40a85e37c47205/kirsten-dunst-sex-scenes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: CinemaCon 2017 - Focus Features Luncheon And Studio Program Celebrating 15 Years og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kirsten Dunst Talks About Filming Sex Scenes for 'The Beguiled' twitter:description: 'Let's get this over with as fast as possible' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c3cb8a84fea4172/6988c1dacf40a85e37c47205/kirsten-dunst-sex-scenes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kirsten Dunst Talks About Filming Sex Scenes for _The Beguiled_ > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/WireImage) Gabe Ginsberg—WireImage by [Kelsey Glein / InStyle](https://time.com/author/instyle/) ## Kelsey Glein / InStyle Contributor Apr 7, 2017 2:04 PM UTC If you’ve seen the trailer for director Sofia Coppola’s upcoming film _The Beguiled_, you know by now that it features a very intense sex scene with stars [Kirsten Dunst](http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/kirsten-dunst) and [Colin Farrell](http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/colin-farrell). And apparently it was so heightened that it even made the actress uncomfortable to film. “I am on the floor and my clothes are being ripped,” Dunst [explained to E! News](http://www.eonline.com/news/841323/kirst-dunst-colin-farrell-open-up-about-their-sex-scene-in-the-beguiled) at CinemaCon. “I don’t like it, I don’t like it. To be honest, I’m like, ‘Let’s get this over with as fast as possible.'” However, she did note that Coppola made it as pleasant as it she could hope for it to be. “At least Sofia’s like, ‘We’re going to get this done quick, we’re just gonna shoot it here, we’ll do three takes, be done,'” she added. Farrell also stated that it was quite the scene to create: “Any love scenes that I’ve been a party to over the years, you just \[do\] whatever your female dance partner needs,” he said. “I really think a woman should be the boss completely in those scenes, whatever she needs to make her comfortable and allow her to have the freedom to do the job she needs to do.” The dramatic thriller is a remake of the 1971 flick of the same name, which tells the story of a wounded Civil War soldier who is taken in by a girls’ boarding school in Virginia. His arrival and charming personality disrupts the peaceful atmosphere, and the women begin to turn on each other as they fall for him. [Nicole Kidman](http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/nicole-kidman) and [Elle Fanning](http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/elle-fanning) also star. [**RELATED:** **Find Out the Unique Way Kirsten Dunst Says Goodbye to the Characters She’s Played**](http://www.instyle.com/videos/find-out-unique-way-kirsten-dunst-says-goodbye-characters-shes-played) Watch _The Beguiled_ when it hits theaters on June 30. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4730818/kirsten-dunst-sex-scenes-beguiled/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4730818/kirsten-dunst-sex-scenes-beguiled/"},"headline":"Kirsten Dunst Talks About Filming Sex Scenes for The Beguiled","datePublished":"2017-04-07T14:04:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:23.663Z","description":"'Let's get this over with as fast as possible'","url":"https://time.com/4730818/kirsten-dunst-sex-scenes-beguiled/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c3cb8a84fea4172/6988c1dacf40a85e37c47205/kirsten-dunst-sex-scenes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kelsey Glein / InStyle"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c3cb8a84fea4172/6988c1dacf40a85e37c47205/kirsten-dunst-sex-scenes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"CinemaCon 2017 - Focus Features Luncheon And Studio Program Celebrating 15 Years","caption":"CinemaCon 2017 - Focus Features Luncheon And Studio Program Celebrating 15 Years","creditText":"Gabe Ginsberg—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4730818/kirsten-dunst-sex-scenes-beguiled/","name":"Kirsten Dunst Talks About Filming Sex Scenes for The Beguiled"}}]}] ```