What do actors do when they have to act in an intimate love scene when they really have real - life partners?

Question

What do actors do when they have to act in an intimate love scene when they really have real - life partners?

Answer 1

I feel sorry for their partners. I could never date an actor.

Answer 2

enjoy the fact theyre semi cheating on theyre partner, and theyre getting away with it.

Answer 3

Male actors -- have fun and enjoy it.

Female actors -- agonise for hours and feel guilty, suffering for their Art.

Answer 4

Exactly, Jake, they act. IF they are emotionally well balanced, they realize it is acting on both peoples' part and they do not get emotionally involved.  Unfortunately, there have been some notable un balanced actors like Burton and Taylor who did not realize it was acting. and it keeps happening, One of the qualifications needed to be a successful actor is emotional well being..

Answer 5

They just do it.  It's not them in the love scene, it's their character.

It sounds like a lot of pretentious mumbojumbo, but that's how it is.  Actors set up a barrier between their work and their life.  

Answer 6

What Jake T said - they ACT.

Its not like someone is going to be sexually stimulated in a love scene - not with a bazillion people on the set and camera equipment and such......

Answer 7

They.........act?

Answer 8

Most famous actors have body doubles that go in and do it.  

Answer 9

Get turned on

Answer 10

Well it depends on the level of explicitness I suppose. Most of the time i'm guessing the actors are really doing said intimate actions... most of the time the real-life partners trust that it's just for the sake of work. I personally would never be able to be in that sort of relationship.