Kyra Sedgwick has opened up about the "weird" sex scenes she had to endure with her husband Kevin Bacon.
Speaking to Yahoo! Entertainment, the actress talked about her long and illustrious career in the industry, delving into her early years as well as the notable movie features that led to her success.
One moment that really stood out during the interview was when the 57-year-old talked about the times when her professional life crossed into her personal life.
A year after starring in Mr. and Mrs. Bridge alongside Paul Newman, Sedgwick admitted that she talked her husband into co-starring in the oddball sex comedy Pyrates.
"I really wanted to do the movie, and we couldn't find a male lead who would raise the money to make it," she recalls to the outlet. "I asked Kevin if he would read the script, and he liked the idea of us doing it together. We didn't think, 'Is it weird for us to do a sex comedy?'"
She continued: "At the time, we were newly married and had our first kid, so the idea of us playing this couple that has such great sex that the room spontaneously bursts into flame was really funny."
However, while the idea seemed pretty exciting at the start, it actually became much more "awkward" than they first anticipated.
"It's much harder," she says. "It's weird because we're always like, 'Is this real or is it not?' As an actor, you sometimes have these dreams when you start a job where you're sleeping and they're filming you. With Pyrates, I was [sleeping] with my husband and they were filming it! It's like, 'This can't be real — I'm having a dream.'"
The movie ended up getting a pretty negative reaction - one of many "bombs" Sedgwick describes being part of.
"It's one in a slew of bombs that both of us have been involved with," she says, chuckling. "Looking back, I'm sure we were devastated about that in the moment. I thought it was a cool, funny and very stylized movie. We took a chance, and we've done that a lot in our careers."
Sedgwick and Bacon went on to star alongside each other two more times after their 1991 feature in 1995's Murder in the First and 2004's The Woodsman.
The pair also went on to have one more child together taking the total up to two - Travis Sedgwick Bacon and actress Sosie Ruth Bacon.
Elsewhere in the interview, the actress opened up about the importance of her role in TNT's The Closer.
"I sacrificed a lot to do the show," she says.
While the actress might have been a star in front of the camera, taking on the role of police investigator Brenda Leigh Johnson, she also had a massive impact behind the scenes acting as an executive producer for the show.
"I'm not complaining! I was very well-paid and I won a lot of hardware. But if it had been a show nobody watched, I would have felt more guilty than I already did for doing it."
Sedgwick ended up being awarded six Emmy nominations for The Closer, securing two.
"I feel like The Closer paved the way for other women to have their own shows. Show business isn't just about being artistically worthwhile — you also have to make money for people. That show made a lot of money for people for many years, and because of it, other women got that opportunity. I'm incredibly grateful for that," she added.
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