The actress remembers how shooting for the sex scenes with her co-stars Sayani Gupta and William Moseley was terrifying…
Kalki Koechlin plays Laila, a cerebral palsy patient in her upcoming film Margarita with a Straw. The actress spent a lot of time living with director Shonali Bose’s sister Malini who inspired the story of the film. Margarita with the Straw also has some sex scenes with Kalki and her co-star Sayani Gupta. Kalki in an exclusive interview with a leading daily revealed that she was super chill about revealing her naked body in front of the cameras, but when the cameras actually started rolling and Kalki entered the room which had more people, she got “uncomfortable”.
Talking about the experience to the Times of India, Kalki said, “I was super excited about showing my naked body! I was like, oh, don’t worry, I’m totally uninhibited — but on the actual day, on a closed set, with both my director and DOP women, I was so uncomfortable! So many people looking at you and you must repeat actions several times. That was really difficult…”
In one of the scenes, Sayani accidentally bit Kalki and both the actresses were shocked! Recounting the incident, the actress said, “For ten minutes, I was in shock! I went to boarding school with girls, having showers, practising kissing on our arms, so I thought, no big deal. But here, I was terrified! I felt like a virgin all over again.”
Recollecting the awkwardness of it all filmmaker Shonali Bose said, “In the hetero scene (with Kalki and William), we realised Kalki’s nipples are the wrong colour! That was really funny. We were giggling, she was lying there, the make-up person was colouring… Kalki (putting on a sour face) — The make-up person was like, ‘I’ve not applied for this job.’”
Kalki‘s upcoming drama is a coming of age tale about a girl who explores her sexual self without letting her medical condition come in the way!