Andy Garcia’s graphic reason for why he won’t film sex scenes: “The act itself is private”
Unless you are bestowed with immense physical perfection, or you genuinely don’t care what anybody thinks (which is often a wonderful trait to have), then shooting a sex scene for a movie must be a pretty terrifying experience. People holding lights, keygrips, whatever they are, sitting munching sandwiches, soundmen tickling your privates with boom mics. Maybe that’s why actors like Andy Garcia avoid them whenever possible.
Now that’s not to say Garcia has never got his kit off on camera, because he definitely has, as the very few people who watched 2023’s crime movie Pain Hustlers will attest to, in which Garcia disrobed for a nudey swim in a pool, but he’s definitely not one to bump uglies with another actor, as he revealed a few years back, saying: “I have always believed that being emotionally explicit absolves me from the need to go further in a physical sense. I have taken my shirt off once or twice. But not to take anything else off is a matter of policy. The true romance and the true sexuality is in the foreplay.”
Which is fine, and perfectly eloquently put, and there’s probably no need to expound on it much more, other than to… wait, what’s that, Andy, you’re not done talking about this? OK then…
“The act itself is private as far as I’m concerned,” Garcia added. “I raised three daughters and last thing I want my daughter to see is me butt-fucking someone on screen. There were some great parts like that but I passed on them.”
Wow. Alright then. Deep breath, Andrew. So as we can see, Garcia is not likely to be seen now or ever doing any horizontal jogging down at your local multiplex, so unfortunately, if your particular fetish is serious Italian American actors who were once in the film Internal Affairs with Richard Gere, then you are clean out of luck, I’m afraid.
If you do just like watching Garcia act, however, then you’ll no doubt have been enjoying his work in Taylor Sheridan’s Landman, in which he has several heated scenes with Billy Bob Thornton, although not in the carnal manner we have just been discussing, thankfully.
Garcia plays Danny ‘Gallino’ Morrell in the celeb-packed show, the head of a drug cartel, and it’s one of several roles Garcia has taken on in the last few years as he goes on something of a late career run.
In the early 1990s, Garcia was undoubtedly a major star, put firmly in the limelight thanks to a leading role in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III alongside Al Pacino and Diane Keaton. He was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his performance in the mafia tale, and it marked a run of major movies that brought the actor considerable acclaim.
One of those was 1994’s When a Man Loves a Woman, opposite Meg Ryan in a romantic drama that brought widespread praise for both the leads and was a global hit, making $119m at the box office against a budget of a tenth of that amount. The next year, he took the lead in Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, which at the time was dismissed as being something of a Tarantino clone, but has since been looked at rather more favourably, and then took on a Sidney Lumet-directed drama, Night Falls on Manhattan, with James Gandolfini.
Garcia now has no less than seven different projects in development, none of which are likely to have any sex scenes in them, or rather, at least not with Garcia in them, including Ocean’s 14 and another film with Pacino about the founding of the Maserati sports car company.
