Hugh Grant learned the hard way that making out with someone with a beard can be your face’s worst nightmare.
The rom-com staple stars in the BBC’s upcoming three-part miniseries, A Very English Scandal. The series, based on John Preston’s 2016 true crime book, will offer a fictionalized account of the real-life gay sex scandal that rocked the British public back in the 1970s.
His character hooks up with a young ex-model named Norman Scott, played by out actor 37-year-old Ben Whishaw.
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And when the director yelled “action”, these two took it quite literally.
“There we were on a Sunday morning shooting, we do a whole love story really in a day,” Hugh told Metro. “We just went for it. I got a rash. I went home to my kids with a rash from Ben’s beard.”
Grant and Whishaw have previously played a married couple in the 2012 film Cloud Atlas, although that relationship was a bit rockier.
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“When he was my wife, we were a very unhappy couple. In this one, we just went for it,” the Love Actually star joked.
Watch the trailer below:
kevininbuffalo
So what?
Will L
Seriously? Unless the rash was on his ass cheeks from a rim job, I wouldn’t exactly call whisker burn “gay sex injury.”
inbama
It’s that British stiff upper lip.
Troyfight
clickbait, but ehh….re: the film: if one of them were goodlooking, i’d probably watch it.
JackieOMG
When I was 16, I slowly seduced a 29-year-old friend of my parents from church. He was very hairy and always looked like he had a 5 o’clock shadow. After our first make-out session, the lower part of my face looked severely sunburned and my lips were raw. Afraid to face my parents the next morning, I smeared Noxzema all over the red places. It burned like hell, but I looked better in the morning, although I may have anyway without that burning, mentholated stuff. Later on, in a darkened farmhouse, a straight man I seduced reached for lube in the dark and got Noxzema by mistake. He didn’t complain, but my booty-hole felt like it was on fire.