Kristen Stewart’s Love Lies Bleeding Costar Breaks Down Their Sex Scenes: ‘So Not Glamorous’ (Exclusive)

Katy O’Brian admits that the sex scenes are uncomfortable.

Breach Love bleeds the actress — a former police officer and competitive bodybuilder who grew up in Indiana — shares intimate moments on screen with actors Kristen Stewart and Dave Franco in the film.

In interviews with PEOPLE, O’Brian and director Rose Glass (also known for the 2019 horror film St. Mod) reveal a not-so-sexy work consisting of filming a sex scene.

“It’s just not glamorous and it’s really not that sexy when you’re doing it. I mean, first of all, you’ve got a guy with a boom mic who has his microphone hovering over you while everything’s going on,” jokes O’Brian.

Adds Glass: “It’s all pretty unsexy, to be honest.”

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Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian in “Love Lies Bleeding.”

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Everything is agreed in advance

Long before the cameras start rolling, the actors, in collaboration with the intimacy coordinator, outline exactly what they are comfortable with and how it will be choreographed. (Christine McHugh and Rebekah Wiggins are credited as intimacy coordinators on the project.)

“There are naked riders and stuff like that,” says Glass. “Usually it’s literally agreed in writing before anyone even gets on set what exactly won’t be shown: from which angle, how much, how little. By the time you get there, it’s all pretty mechanical.”

O’Brian explains that there is no room for improvisation.

“We stick to the script for those scenes, because with intimate scenes, there’s a lot of approval that goes into everything,” she says. “If anything changes, we have to go back and sign more papers. We just had to get it all approved ahead of time.”

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They get creative with buffers to separate the actors

Not only are there “modest garments,” which are “always kind of funny, weird things that look like panty liners,” according to Glass, but other materials are used to protect private parts.

O’Brian says they used “a lot of tape” down there. Love bleeds.

“Our intimacy coordinator wanted to make sure I had a lot of layers between me and Kristen, so she would stick one layer of fabric, especially in our first bedroom scene, where you have to see my side, so we can’t have underwear on.”

“Then,” O’Brian recalls, “I think there was another layer, and it was literally a cut out yoga mat that she put over me and taped.”

The actress says she was given a hockey mug from time to time, and that Franco, for their sex scene, was given “a deflated yoga ball to use as a buffer” between them.

“There was a bit of ridiculous experimentation with protection,” he says with a laugh, adding, “It just didn’t seem sexy and very silly.”

Dave Franco in “Love Lies Bleeding”.

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Elements can get in the way on set

Love bleeds it was filmed in New Mexico, where the heat would sometimes leave the actors sweaty and dirty.

O’Brian recalls one heat-induced mishap when she had to pull down her “little shorts” for a sex scene, and the taped-on puffer (which looked like she was “wearing a diaper,” she says) slipped off.

“It was so hot that every time Kristen pulled her pants down, everything would just pull up. So we ended up just being like, ‘Can we just do it with one layer? Do we really need a diaper?’ O’Brian recalls.

“We’re shooting in Albuquerque. It’s hot, it’s summer—about 112 degrees. So we feel sweaty and gross, and we just hope we’re not smelly and all that,” she adds. “I’m not feeling so sexy right now.”

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Katy O’Brian and Kristen Stewart in “Love Lies Bleeding.”

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The minds of the cast and crew are usually on everything but sex

Everyone on the set has their own job, and mostly all crew members and actors are mostly occupied with cameras, microphones, angles and choreography.

“Usually you’re more worried about something like the camera falling on the actors and killing them and hoping that doesn’t happen, and you forget the fact that, oh yeah, they’re faking sex,” quips director Glass.

One scene, for example, shot in a “tiny tiny” bathroom on a hand-held camera, was shot in a “really long shot,” according to Glass.

Describing the cameraman who was filming with a hand-held device, Glass says, “The poor guy was just standing there with his arms that probably should have fallen off. Even though he’s got these beautiful women kissing and ‘having sex’ in front of him, he’s like, ‘No, please let them stop. My hands hurt!’ ”

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