Henry Cavill doesn't love sex scenes — watching or filming them.
The Superman star admitted to this cinematic preference of his in a recent interview on the podcast Happy Sad Confused, alongside Argylle director Matthew Vaughn.
After Matthew told host Josh Horowitz that he never directs sex scenes if he can help it, Henry jumped in to agree with the director's stance.
"I also don’t understand [sex scenes]—I’m not a fan," the actor said.
He continued: "There are circumstances where a sex scene actually is beneficial to a movie, rather than just the audience, [but] I think sometimes they’re overused these days.
"It’s when you have a sense where you’re going, 'Is this really necessary or is it just people with less clothing on?' And that’s where you start to get more uncomfortable and you’re thinking, 'There’s not a performance here. There’s not a piece which is going to carry through into the rest of the movie.'"
Henry further clarified his stance, saying: "Sex scenes can be great in a movie. They can really help with the storytelling. But most of the time, the human imagination is going to trump it, and so I think it can be a little bit of a cop-out if a TV show or a movie is just filled with sort of gyrating bodies, and you're going, 'OK, but what is this doing for us?' apart from the idea of like, 'Ooh, naked person. Great.'"
Matthew then quipped: "Or we're just English prudes." Well, nothing wrong with that!
Henry and Matthew worked together on Argylle, which was released on 2 February in cinemas across the UK. The film has a star-studded cast, with Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John Cena and more starring in it alongside Henry.
