Will Smith admits sex scenes are 'worst part of acting' in candid interview

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Will Smith has opened up about the not-so-glamorous reality of filming love-making scenes in movies.

The Focus actor, who has been paired with the likes of Margot Robbie on the big screen, even went as far as to brand them the "worst part of acting".

The 53-year-old shared his views on capturing intimacy in films during an interview on the British late-night show The Graham Norton Show.

Per ET Canada, he told Norton: "Sex scenes are the worst part of acting – when you watch it in a movie there is music and wine but on set there is some big dude holding the microphone, chewing and watching you."

The married father of three then went on to share a decades-old prank he had played on his now-wife Jada Pinkett-Smith which saw him show one of her sex scenes to his religious grandmother the first time they met.

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Smith said: "She was going to meet my family for the first time. I was raised in a very religious household and my grandmother Gigi is all the way down with Jesus... Because she didn't know who Jada was, I put on a movie of hers and worked out that by the time Jada arrived my grandmother would be watching the love scene...

"She walked in, my grandmother was in the middle of the scene and she looked up and said to Jada, 'When I was growing up people didn't have to take their clothes off to make a movie.' Jada took me aside and said, 'Why would you do that?'

"I said, 'I promise you it's funny, maybe not now, but one day this is going to provide us with years of joy.' We have been together for 27 years and she literally hasn't chuckled once!"

Smith has become increasingly candid about his own personal sexual experiences recently.

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In fact, in his new memoir, titled Will, the I Am Legend star recalled turning "full ghetto hyena" as he pursued a series of sexual relationships while trying to get over his first heartbreak as a teenager.

Eventually, he said, his "rampant sexual intercourse" led to him developing a "psychosomatic reaction" to climaxing that sometimes made him vomit.

Per HuffPost, he wrote: "Up until this point in my life, I had only had sex with one woman other than Melanie. But over the next few months, I went full ghetto hyena. But as there is no pill for heartbreak I resorted to the homeopathic remedies of shopping and rampant sexual intercourse."

He continued: "I had sex with so many women, and it was so constitutionally disagreeable to the core of my being, that I developed a psychosomatic reaction to having an orgasm.

"It would literally make me gag and sometimes even vomit. In every case, though, I hoped to God this beautiful stranger would be 'the one' who would love me, who would make this pain go away — but invariably, there I was, retching and wretched."

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