John Cena bared it all in a revealing stunt at the Oscars earlier this year, but this week he revealed he doesn’t like being natural on screen.
The 47-year-old “Jackpot” star appeared on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast “Club Shay Shay” and admitted that filming a sex scene in a movie is the “worst.”
“Right now, you guys at home are going to think it’s just us. No, there’s a whole world behind this,” he said, pointing to the podcast’s off-camera crew. “But still, this is an amazing production. But, hey, the catering was right there, the sound tent was right there.”
Cena continued, recalling a particularly awkward on-screen experience.
Cena, a WWE personality, co-starred with Schumer, 43, in the 2015 romantic comedy “Trainwreck.” In one scene, Cena and Schumer try to share an intimate moment, but Cena’s character completely ruins the moment with an embarrassing vulgarity.
“Amy [Schumer] “She was an angel and such a lightener. And when I got the part, at the end they said, ‘Yes, there’s a sex scene. We want you to do this elaborate, crazy stunt sex thing. And all those lines you had? We’re probably not going to use them, we’re going to do this stunt sex scene,'” he recalled.
“You have a lot of people making a movie. There’s nothing intimate about it. There’s nothing. So it’s really embarrassing. And to have to make fun of myself and do a comedy sex scene,” he continued. “They literally said, ‘Make the sex as awkward as you can.'”
“When the audience is watching, it’s different,” he added. “I don’t want to say it’s awful, it’s just not what people think it is.”
Sharp then asked the “Peacemaker” star which was worse: the stunt or the sex scene at the Oscars.
(If you missed it, Cena made headlines in March when he appeared completely nude onstage at the Oscars while presenting an award.)
Cena responded emphatically, “An Oscar.”
“I stand in front of a room of colleagues, many of whom I’ve never met because I haven’t made the effort to meet them. [them]”I get all the most decorated performers, producers and directors in a room, and I go out there and write my stuff on index cards and say, ‘Hey guys, is this funny? Are we good?'”
Check out Cena’s full interview on YouTube.