Michelle Williams & Ryan Gosling Talk About Their Toxic, Messy Sex Scene

Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, who are promoting their new film 'Blue Valentine,' cover W magazine.

In the movie, out December 31, Michelle and Ryan share a raw and messy sex scene. Here's what Michelle had to say about filming it:

"We never rehearsed anything, and those were really dark days. We shot the beginning of our relationship first, and it was fun and alive. Then we did the sex scenes and it was...toxic. Ryan and I had stopped relating to each other as Ryan and Michelle. Those scenes took forever. I had a long drive from set to home each night, and I would roll down all the windows and turn up the music as loud as I could and hang my head out the window like a dog and scream. It was my escape."

Ryan said:

"You mean the trying-not-to-have-sex sex scene? It was hard...a lot of times actors can trick people into thinking something is happening when it's not happening, and we had to call ourselves out on anything that didn't feel honest. Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines. All of these things are artificial, and you have to strip that away if you're going to achieve a sense of intimacy. In real life sex is messy, and we wanted to get at that wonderful messiness.

Read the whole interview here.

Comments

[kapalabhati]

09:51 PM on 09/15/2010

The new "W" format sucks. Trying too hard to be edgy and cool. Trying to hard and not getting away with it.

[Edward Standley]

12:44 AM on 09/15/2010

Messy? Well, then you've done it correctly.

[SaraMN00]

08:02 PM on 09/14/2010

I love Ryan Gosling. The Notebook, as much as I am really not into the whole drama/romance movie, to me is one of the most beautiful movie stories I have ever seen. I also loved him in Lars and the Real Girl and the movie Fracture with Anthony Hopkins. Great actor.

[patman77]

03:25 PM on 09/14/2010

can't wait to see em posted on line with the vertical slit.

[RonNYC]

01:44 PM on 09/14/2010

Ryan is an excellent actor. He was so great in Half Nelson and I watch
The Notebook every time it is on TV. He is slightly odd looking but hot!

[killerqueen84]

11:53 AM on 09/14/2010

Ryan Gosling is very attractive. Raw and messy sex scene, eh? Maybe I'll have to check that one out.

[Seemyprofilepic]

08:29 AM on 09/14/2010

Actors try to talk as if they're the most artistic and creative persons who specialize in some sort of mind-bending reality. It's actually funny sometimes to read.

Screaming out the window sounds weird. But whatever..I'm convinced most actors/actresses are weird to begin with.

[KingHuff]

10:15 AM on 09/14/2010

ummmmm...they DO specialize in some sort of mind bending reality...which is why its called acting and judging by your cavalier attitude , i am guessing you have never tried it. What is made to look easy and real on screen ... takes alot of skill. Yes. some actors are weird...but most are hard working " artistic and creative people " doing something they love.

[racetoinfinity]

07:02 AM on 09/14/2010

Michelle Williams is a wonderful actress. See "Wendy and Lucy" (2008) for one of her most-excellent performances.

[oceanofconsciousness]

02:14 AM on 09/14/2010

British actors are all shaking their heads... when it's time to act in front of the camera, you just, act. And then you stop.... That's called, uh.... acting.

[believethelie]

05:25 AM on 09/14/2010

You mean the British who can't stop singing show tunes and call it acting?

[SuperMoncho]

01:35 AM on 09/14/2010

Michelle Williams is so beautiful.

[GoldieLocks]

01:26 AM on 09/14/2010

she is super airbrushed! its insane! she looks so different than when I've seen her in tabloids. He always looks sexy though. haha. Though I know he's airbrushed as well. I'm just saying

[RationalRadioJack]

11:43 PM on 09/13/2010

In other important news.......Walgren's has Brawny Extra Strength Paper Towels on sale...12 pack for $8.00.

Also, I had my tires rotated today. I wasn't going to do it. I didn't think I had time. So I just skipped gong to lunch.

[believethelie]

05:28 AM on 09/14/2010

A friend of mine also got something rotated today but it wasn't her tires.

[RationalRadioJack]

11:20 AM on 09/14/2010

Yes, and I bet she saw more than just buttcrack and probably paid far less.

Did she get all this at Discount Tires?

[catbyte]

09:47 AM on 09/14/2010

WOW! Brawny's on sale? I'll have to stop by on my way home from work...Fanned & faved for the snark!

Diane
Anishnabe in MI

[gobamaaa]

11:26 PM on 09/13/2010

look at that picture!!! ryan gosling is a gorgeous, gorgeous man.

[MamacitaOfLove]

12:56 AM on 09/14/2010

That he is. Makes me wanna ------

[barrada nicto]

06:31 AM on 09/14/2010

There was a man in the picture?

[BrwnSknGurl4]

12:59 PM on 09/15/2010

I agree...he's hot but he looks too feminine in the photo.

[Stanwyck]

10:42 PM on 09/13/2010

Michelle Williams is mesmerizing on screen. See "Deception". She goes beyond beauty. She has that extra pull that Bette Davis had.

[patman77]

03:29 PM on 09/14/2010

deception, she was hot, brokeback she was not, except she was or she would'nt have a baby by the leading man of that movie.

[Ina Dolce]

10:32 PM on 09/13/2010

Is there anything worse than an actor talking about acting?? Dude, it's just a movie, get over yourself. People in this world have real problems and really don't need yet another drippy love story that ends in tragedy. NEXT!

[Lexi Suarez]

09:13 AM on 09/15/2010

How dare they make you read an article about something you have no interest in! The nerve!

[Ina Dolce]

11:38 AM on 09/16/2010

So what are you like the president of Ryan's Gosling's fan club. You need to get out more. Policing people's comments is so lame.