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Ricky Martin was a total natural at filming his first gay sex scene. Surprised?

“I thought I was going to be more uncomfortable. The exhibitionism kicked in for a moment and all of a sudden I was naked in bed in front of 20 people from the crew and another actor I met that same day. I was not nervous at all. On the contrary, I was ready to do what needed to be done.”

He added: “It’s a story that needs to be told. We’re going to go mainstream with a story that talks about homophobia, that talks about hate, that talks about indifference.”Ricky Martin to Entertainment Weekly when asked what it was like to film his first gay sex scene as Gianni Versace’s boyfriend Antonio D’Amico in the next season of Ryan Murphy‘s American Crime Story.

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