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Aubrey Plaza was told to do something very unexpected during X-rated Robert De Niro scene
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Aubrey Plaza revealed the unexpected thing she was made to do during a sex scene with Robert De Niro.
In a 2016 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Plaza, now 42, opened up about her time filming Dirty Grandpa with De Niro, now 83.
In the movie, Plaza played Lenore, a young, sex-obsessed college coed who becomes infatuated with De Niro’s character, Lieutenant Colonel Richard "Dick" Kelly, a mischievous grandfather.
Plaza, who was 31 at the time, addressed a graphic sex scene she shot with the veteran actor, who was 73.
The scene, which took nearly ten hours to shoot, was anything but predictable, with some of it not having been planned out in advance.
She told Kimmel: "There was a lot of interesting stuff that went down, you know. We didn’t totally plan out the scene. We didn’t know how it was going to go down,” revealing that the director, Dan Mazer, would frequently pull her aside to offer new instructions for each take, with varying results.
Plaza revealed that one such instruction was to suck De Niro's nipples, adding: "And I’d be like, ‘You want me to do it? I’d rather not.' And then he’d be like, ‘Yeah, suck on his nipples.’
"I’d try to get in there and suck on his nipples, and he was like batting me away, and I didn’t know if it was in character or not," Plaza laughed.
After one take, the director let her know: “Bob does not like his nipple area paid attention to,” which only added to the awkwardness. Plaza joked: "Great, now he thinks that I wanted to do that."
She admitted she was surprised to learn that De Niro was nervous to work with her, adding: "I heard from my agent, who had spoken to his agent that he was legitimately scared of me."
She thought his apprehension was likely more about her character, a sex-crazed college student, than her personally, adding: "Every time I was around him, it was right before we started shooting, so I would be all over him, and I think I really freaked him out."
Plaza also revealed how she broke the ice with De Niro before their intimate scenes together, explaining during an interview with Seth Meyers: "I didn’t know him, we’d never talked and I was really scared of working with him, I was terrified.
"But I was like, 'I’m going to do something kinda crazy.'
"And I took a real sl*tty picture of myself in my trailer in character, and then I printed it out and I put it in a book of Zen Buddhism and then I slipped it under his trailer door with a little note that said ‘Happy shooting.'"
She revealed that it took over a week before De Niro finally mentioned the gift, adding: "He casually came over to me a week later and was like, ‘I got your book … I only got to page four but it was very good.’ And then he walked away."