Unexpected Bloopers During Love Scenes

We live in an era where the making of love scenes in movies is pretty serious, largely for the benefit of the actors involved. The awareness and employment of intimacy coordinators on film sets have increased in recent years to ensure that all participants are safe and comfortable. In the past, of course, these priorities were the same, but Hollywood recently has adopted stricter practices to ensure that sex scenes are performed and filmed in a controlled environment. As it turns out, some actors feel so comfortable performing these sex scenes that they inadvertently become a perfect environment — lying naked next to a co-star — to crack a joke or flub a line. In many sex scene bloopers from major movies, on-screen chemistry led to real-world hijinks.

Ranging from the most intimate and serious moments to raunchy and comedic gags, a surprising number of bloopers have come from filming sex scenes. These clips are some of the funniest and most unexpected bloopers during love scenes in movies and TV — and in case you were wondering, yes, these videos are NSFW, so watch the clips at your own discretion.

"All About Steve" earned some of the worst reviews its leads Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper have ever seen. And for good reason — the very premise is too problematic for the good intentions of the movie to untangle itself from. "All About Steve" is a comedy about stalking, from the point of view of a woman aggressively stalking an uninterested suitor. The socially awkward Mary (Bullock) is romantically attracted to Steve (Cooper) and will stop at nothing in her unrelenting pursuit of this affection. After their first date, the two are flirting in his car — or at least, Mary thinks they are — and Mary throws herself on top of Steve in the driver's seat.

The encounter doesn't go as planned, and it went wrong for the actors, too; in multiple takes the two can be seen breaking down into laughter as the backseat lovemaking gets more intense. In one take of the scene, Bullock went after Cooper a little too hard and smacked him in the face, causing the actor to stop the scene to grope at his pained face.

It's standard romantic comedy playbook stuff that before the protagonist can get together with their One True Love, they have to ditch the Total Jerk That Isn't Right For Them. But that doesn't always mean the jerk doesn't have his charms. For example, at the beginning of "Bridesmaids," Annie (Kristen Wiig) is dating a self-serving blockhead named Ted (Jon Hamm). One of the points that tips off the audience to the loveless nature of this relationship is the stale lovemaking. Only, these two funny actors couldn't even make it through that without laughing.

There are a few scenes of passionless sex between Annie and Ted, although the bloopers captured during those scenes tell a different story. On the set, Wiig and Hamm had a grand old partially-clothed time with each other by turning the whole situation into an elaborate football joke. Equipped with funny voices and excellent improv skills, these two have a chemistry their characters never were supposed to.

The classic 1998 rom-com "There's Something About Mary" features one of the most famous (and cringe-inducing scenes) in movie history — at least for male viewers. Teenage Ted (Ben Stiller) pulls up his zipper ... and gets his junk caught up in it by accident. It was staged, of course, because no actor should have to suffer quite that much for the sake of art. However, on the set of the science fiction-tinged romance "About Time," Rachel McAdams nearly made this nightmare a reality for co-star Domhnall Gleeson.

While filming an intimate scene where McAdams is supposed to zip (or unzip, it's not quite clear out of context) Gleeson's pants zipper to get things moving along. However, during the unused take that we see in the bloopers, she was a little too quick with her zipper hand, which almost led to tragedy. Gleeson jumps up shocked, before reassuring everyone that he was fine, having just narrowly avoided being ensnared in the worst way.

The build-up to the physical act of love is just as important as the act itself. That make-it-or-break-it time was hilariously explored in "Wanderlust," the 2012 comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston. Rudd plays George alongside Aniston as his wife, Linda, in a comedy about a couple of underemployed Manhattanites who join a free-love hippie commune.

In this heavenly free space, it's "okay" if George wants to hook up with Eva (Malin Akerman) and his wife "can't" get angry about it. It's still a difficult situation for the awkward guy to navigate. George is nervous and panicky as he prepares to get it on with Eva all and starts listing all supposedly sexy things he wants to do, some of which make sense but are awkwardly delivered ("I'm gonna get up on your bones"), but most of his come-ons don't make sense and are also awkwardly delivered ("I'm gonna slap you in the eye"). In the section of bloopers for this scene, neither Rudd nor Akerman could go for more than a line or two without laughing at themself or the other performer.

These days, the Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake romantic comedy "Friends with Benefits" is most notable for coming out in the same year and having nearly the exact same plot as the Natalie Portman-Ashton Kutcher film "No Strings Attached." In the former of these 2011 rom-coms, Kunis and Timberlake play young, attractive people who try to engage in a purely physical relationship with no emotional or romantic entanglements. As we all know, that type of thing is doomed to fail in a movie such as this. They keep things physical for a while, but the characters inevitably fall in love with each other. Being the young, attractive people they are, they get to see each other's vulnerable sides in bed.

This is truer behind the scenes, where Timberlake is especially loose. In the outtake of one "Friends with Benefits" love scene, he wraps the bed sheets around his head like a Jedi robe and does his best impression of Obi-Wan Kenobi, promising to use the Force to "pleasure" Kunis' character. Later, with his head under the sheets, Timberlake goes on and on about how men get hurt during these type of encounters and how ridiculous it seems to him to have his head buried under the sheets. Throughout it all, Kunis cannot stop laughing.

In the mid-2000s, Ashton Kutcher was a go-to leading man for romantic comedies. See the previously mentioned 2011 rom-com "No Strings Attached" — which came after his heights as a rom-com star in films such as "Just Married," "My Boss's Daughter," and "What Happens in Vegas." One of the less-remembered entries of Kutcher's run was 2005's "A Lot Like Love," in which Kutcher and Amanda Peet played two good-looking people who slowly fall for each other. It's an innocuous premise, and its genuinely tame and predictable execution doesn't do anything to spice that up. The actors, however, brought their own spice to it, since some of the outtakes are a bit more ribald than you might expect from this PG-13 comedy.

One blooper comes filming an outdoor nude scene where Kutcher is standing in front of a car and Peet has disappeared off-screen beneath him, if you catch our drift. Kutcher mimes the sex acts while Peet gives a humorous fake moan, leading Kutcher to break and quip out of character that he doesn't need a "fluffer." For the innocent among us, that profession is of a person on the set of an adult film who keeps male performers ready to go during breaks from the scene. It's a bit of an R-rated joke for the audience "A Lot Like Love" was going for.

For years after the release of "Borat," many Americans only knew actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for playing the Kazakhstani documentarian. But in 2002, a couple of years before "Borat" blew up, Baron Cohen made a film for an overseas audience based on his first original character, wannabe gangster Ali G, from "Da Ali G Show." Unlike the improvised mockumentary style of the "Borat" and "Bruno," "Ali G Indahouse" followed a more traditional fiction film format, allowing for scenes that needed to be repeated across multiple takes. Naturally, with the talent involved, "Ali G Indahouse" has bloopers galore.

One such scene is absurd, but we will count it here since there is lovemaking happening. Ali G is not engaging in it, though, as he sits on the bed while two actresses get things started under a blanket behind him. In classic degenerate fashion, Baron Cohen sticks a ball in his crotch, and he calls a dog named Tupac up onto the bed. The dog, as dogs are wont to do, immediately goes for the ball. Or, rather, the balls. After getting up and grasping at his privates, Baron Cohen loses his composure as do the actresses under the covers.

Giovanni Ribisi admirably tried to lighten the mood during a tender scene for Seth McFarlane's western parody "A Million Ways to Die in the West." Opposite Sarah Silverman, Ribisi played one half of a couple practicing abstinence who inevitably is tempted to have sex before marriage. In this scene, Ribisi is lying in the bed while Silverman stands above him ready to join in. Both actors are showing off nothing at all their not-at-all-revealing, period-appropriate underwear.

While the actor is all over the gag reel with crack-ups of all sorts, this Ribisi scene in particular made the blooper reel due to a bit of well-executed improvised physical comedy. Sadly, this bit didn't make it into the final cut of the film. In one continuous action, Ribisi flips over onto his side, strikes a "sexy" pose, and lightly touches his bedside reading material. And no, that's not a euphemism. The actor delicately caresses the pages of the open book on the bedside table.

Starz's fantasy drama set primarily in 18th-century Scotland offers something for everyone: political intrigue, beautiful cinematography, steamy romance, and ... even more steamy romance. The show has love scenes galore. The main pairing is between 20th-century transplant Claire (Caitríona Balfe) and debonair warrior Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan). This sexual chemistry is there from the start, and needless to say, the show wouldn't work without it. Even when the two characters marry out of necessity and haven't yet fallen in love, their futures are intertwined.

Even in the early episodes of "Outlander," Balfe and Heughan have clearly developed a casual ease with one another. If the Season 1 outtakes are to be believed, these two have reached the ascendant point where filming these bedroom moments is more silly than awkward. In a moment of pure character-driven inspiration, Heughan accidentally spits on Balfe. Immediately embarrassed, all Balfe can do is erupt into laughter.

Amazon Prime's royal queer rom-com "Red, White & Royal Blue" has its fair share of crowd-pleasing steamy scenes. When the son of the United States president (Taylor Zakhar Perez) falls in love with a British Prince (Nicholas Galitzine), there is sure to be forbidden love. And where there is love, well, other things follow.

During a particularly energetic affair, Prince Henry embraces his secret lover, Alex, and the two begin to kiss passionately. The two are supposed to throw themselves down onto a chair to continue getting things moving, but in this outtake Galitzine throws himself at his co-star a bit too hard, and both of the men topple the chair over. They collapse laughing. In another blooper, Perez is kissing Galitizine on the neck and blows a raspberry on his neck. The take ruined, the two actors burst into laughter there on the royal bed.