Legendary actor explains why he regrets having unsimulated sex in controversial film

All because of the pressure from the film’s director.

Rylance, 65, has said they he, and co-star Kerry Fox, were persuaded to do the scene by the late French director, Patrice Chéreau.

Rylance previously said that he felt ‘pressured’ to do the scene and now regrets agreeing to the director’s requests.

In an interview for Wall Street Journal in 2015, Rylance had said that ‘he wishes he didn’t make the film’ and that shooting the film was 'the most difficult job' he has ever had.

The Oscar-winning actor, who some 14 years later took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Steven Spielberg’s film, Bridge of Spies, played the role of a lonely bartender in Intimacy who hooks up with a mysterious woman, played by Fox.

The film won the Best Film award at the Berlin Film Festival, but the unsimulated oral sex scene was what everyone was talking about.

On the other hand, his co-star, Kerry Fox, seems not to mind it all that much and has seen the positives coming from it.

In spite of the controversy the film caused, the 59-year-old actress has said that the film actually proved somewhat 'helpful' in her career.

Her ex-boyfriend, Alexander Linklater, agreed with Rylance, adding that he was in fact ‘jealous’ of the steamy stuff that was happening on the film set.