Riley Keough and Ben Smith-Petersen.Photo: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty
Riley Keoughmay be comfortable with husbandBen Smith-Petersenin the privacy of their own home, but his intimate cameo inDaisy Jones & The Sixwas “weirder” than she imagined.
As the actress, 33, joinedLate Night with Seth MeyersThursday, she sharedwhat it was like filming a sex scenewith her real-life husband for her newly released series.
“The cameo came about because I have to have intercourse with a random person in the show, and the producers were like, ‘It would be so funny if it was your husband,'” Keough told hostSeth Meyers.
“Was that more or less awkward?” Meyers, 49, asked.
“It was more awkward!” Keough admitted. “I think they were thinking it would be less awkward, and then we got there and they’re like, ‘This is really uncomfortable.'”
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She continued, “For one, I’ve never had pretend sex with my husband. And for two, you know, normally, typically, when you do these things and it’s somebody coming in for the day, you’re like, ‘Hello, nice to meet you,’ and you kind of get down to business and it’s very professional. But with him, it was just, like, really … We were just giggling the whole time.”
Meyers quipped that he would not want to film a fictitious sex scene with his wife,Alexi Ashe, either, to which Keough admitted that it was “so weird.”
“In the scene — and this is a spoiler alert — in the scene, I’m not really enjoying it,” she said. “And I really kept feeling inclined to be like, ‘In real life, it’s not like this.’ And I was like, ‘I’ll just keep that to myself.'”
Riley Keough and Ben Smith-Petersen.Vasquez/BACKGRID
At theDaisy Jones & The Sixpremierein Los Angeles a week prior, Keough teased Smith-Petersen’s cameo, sharing that she thought it would be “hilarious.”
“I don’t want to like spoil it, but the producers thought it would be funny if he was in that scene,” Keough toldEntertainment Tonight. “They were like, ‘Do you want Ben to do this?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s hilarious.'”
Though she didn’t share the details about his scene at the time, Keough has since given her fans more of a glimpse into her relationship with her partner, sharing howshe “knew” she would marry himafter their second date.
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New episodes ofDaisy Jones & The Sixarrive Fridays on Prime Video.
source: people.com
