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Topics: Celebrity, Kaley Cuoco, TV and Film, Sex and Relationships, Entertainment
Jess Battison
Topics: Celebrity, Kaley Cuoco, TV and Film, Sex and Relationships, Entertainment
Kaley Cuoco has made a firm decision about her sex scenes in any role she plays from now on.
Probably best known for playing Penny in the Big Bang Theory, the 38-year-old has also starred in the likes of The Flight Attendant and 8 Simple Rules.
And while she starred as Penny, Cuoco ended up having to film intimate scenes with her ex following her split from co-star Johnny Galecki.
It’s fair to say that was pretty awkward for both actors but it seems sex scenes are totally a thing of the past now for Cuoco as she’s packed in doing them altogether.
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One of the star’s most recent TV roles was playing Ava Bartlett in Based on a True Story on which she also served as an executive producer.
And the true-crime-obsessed real estate agent had some pretty raunchy scenes (although mostly sexual fantasies), which Cuoco got out of.
The actor opted for a body double to perform Ava’s intimate scenes. They even had a prosthetic belly fitted because the star was pregnant at the time of filming and this was written into the show.
Speaking to USA TODAY she said: “I don’t roll that way. I need someone else to do that stuff.
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“I’m past that. I’m not doing that anymore. Also, who wants to see that? Not my thing. I’d rather let someone else do it, and that’s what’s movie magic [is for]. We don’t have to do those things anymore. We can have someone else do it, and we can fake our way through.”
Cuoco went on to joke that her co-star Chris Messina also used a double, although not quite for the same thing.
He played Ava’s husband, Nathan, a former pro-tennis player who now works as a coach.
“You think that Chris Messina played tennis? Please! He was terrible! That’s his double,” she said.
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Having the body double also helped Cuoco out for the non-sexy stuff a she had to be ‘on her feet a lot’.
“It was a lot,” the star said.
“And by the end, I was nine months pregnant. So the fight scene at the end near the grave − the fantasy − a lot of that was done by my double because it was like I was literally about to give birth, like any second.”
She welcomed her first child with Tom Pelphrey in March 2023, a daughter named Matilda.