Rafe Spall dishes on the many, many love scenes he’s filmed & why the gay-for-pay one was his favorite
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Prometheus) to Oscar winners (The Big Short, The Life Of Pi) to cult favorites (Hot Fuzz, The Ritual).Actually, we take back what we said a second ago: We guarantee you’d recognize his body, if anything.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.That’s because some way, somehow Spall has wound up being naked on camera in a number of projects—18 times, by his most recent count!“I’ve done loads too many,” he joked on a recent episode of Brit comedian Kathy Burke’s podcast, Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake. “They’re nice [to film] if you like 50 blokes watching you pretend to have sex.
If that’s your thing.”Now, we won’t list all of those instances here—there are plenty of websites dedicated to just that. In fact, that’s a reality Spall seems very aware of:“Apparently it’s a thing where everyone who’s ever been naked on telly is on it,” the actor shares with Burke, no doubt referring to online databases like Mr.
Man that catalogue people’s nude scenes on screen over the years. “It’s outrageous.”It’s seems Spall used to be more laissez-faire about showing off the goods, but now that he’s a family man, he’s a bit more trepidatious.
He has three children from his previous marriage who are now at an age where he worries other kids may talk to them about it.Interestingly, he does still show some skin in the AppleTV+ comedy Trying, which he currently stars in opposite his romantic partner Esther Smith (the two also starred together in the 2014 Black Mirror episode “White Christmas”), though it seems the series is much less gratuitous than some of his past work.But, of all the intimate scenes Rafe Spall has had to film over the years, his favorite?
