Co-Star Says Being Naked in Bed with Tom is “Pretty, um, Not Awful”
May 4th, 2010 by Katie received Comments OffTalulah Riley, who plays Tom’s character’s love interest in Pirate Radio/The Boat That Rocked has been asked questions about what it was like to work with Tom in several interviews. In those interviews, she reveals that she knew Tom prior to working on Pirate Radio; the two met through Robert Pattinson, with whom she worked on the unreleased short, “The Summer House.” Ms. Riley’s latest movie is The Inception, written and produced by Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight). You can catch The Inception in theaters this July. Here is some of what she had to say about Tom:
“He’s one of my best friends, so we knew each other before we did this. So, it was kind of quite strange actually, because we’ve never kissed or done anything vaguely, you know, in that direction. So to be suddenly facing and having to lie naked with him under a sheet…it was pretty, pretty…uhm, not awful (laughs), but different.”
Click to read the rest and see what prank Talulah wanted to play on Tom and how they prepared for their scenes.
“ How did you cross paths with [Tom] in the first place?
TL: I worked with a guy called Robert Pattinson, who is Tom’s best friend, and then he introduced us… (Starts to laugh) …and then Tom and I became best friends!”
In a separate interview, she states:
“I’ve known Tom for years and years, he’s one of my best friends, so that…that was actually quite strange to work with Tom and to be his love interest. And I didn’t really want Richard to tell him that I’d been cast in the role, ‘cause I just thought it’d be hysterical to turn up and freak him out on the first day of filming, but Richard actually told him the night before. So Tom called me and said, “You’re doing what?” I think he was kind of cross with me. Yeah, it was funny to have to kiss him and stuff.”
And in another interview, she talks a bit about Rob and also the apprehension that both she and Tom had when filming the love scenes:
“Q: How did that compare with your love scenes with Tom Sturridge?
Talulah Riley: Love scenes with Tom were awkward because he’s like my best friend. We’ve known each other forever and ever, before the film.
Q: How did you meet?
Talulah Riley: Through Robert Pattinson who I went with.
Q: Twilight.
Talulah Riley: Twilight Rob Pattinson as he is now known which is really weird. That’s really bizarre. Anyway, yeah, so it was just kind of funny because obviously we’d always really avoided ever being like, I never kissed him or anything like that but it was kind of like a When Harry Met Sally way. There’s always been that so then we actually had to just hop into bed together. It was awkward.
Q: Was the condom scene all scripted?
Talulah Riley: That was all scripted, yeah. And actually, the kiss was meant to be really scripted because I was so freaked out about it that Emma, who is the script editor and Richard’s partner, she had me in the other room. She’s going, “It’s going to be fine. It’s going to be fine.” We literally worked out blow by blow the kiss that I do. So we’re like, “Then we’ll do that, and then we’ll do that.” So okay, great, I got it. Then Tom would come, he literally would come nowhere near me. So there’s this scene in the film where they pan up and our bodies are like there. That’s because that was literally how nervous we were that we were supposed to do a full on kind of passionate thing. We ended up just doing [a peck] like that.”
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