Silk Spectre Malin Ackerman’s Sizzling Hot Sex Scene

Silk Spectre And Nite Owl’s Sizzling Hot Sex Scene

We know how Zack Snyder put together the shiny blue god Dr. Manhattan, but what about the more personal scenes? We asked the cast how Snyder went about recreating the sexier panels. Warning: sexy spoilers…

While talking to Watchmen screenwriter, we asked him who was the scribe responsible for the hot and heavy Nite Owl (II) and Silk Spectre (II) sex scene that most certainly had to be in the film. Alex Tse laughed and simply said, “Zack ran with that one.”

So what about Malin Ackerman and Patrick Wilson, who played Spectre and Nite Owl respectively? What did they think about pulling down their costumes and adventuring all naked? And without blushing, the two shared with us just how intimate it was:

Malin Ackerman: The end result is beautiful and done in a classy manner, it’s really sexy and amazing… You need to check it out to see if it’s gratuitous or not. I feel like this is such a beautiful scene. And I know you’ll be surprised when I say he’s very respectful, because he’s usually not [Laughs].

The set was amazing, they made it as comfortable as possible. And you know sitting there half naked, it’s never the most comfortable thing, no matter who you’re with. Of course, it’s a big deal in a sense. But it’s also the whole film is sort of the extent of what you go to as human nature, and that’s part of what we do as people. You fall in love, and you make love. If it’s done beautifully, I’m in.

Patrick Wilson: I think everything sort of starts with the script. There are a couple panels in the comic that demanded nudity, of some sort. We talked with Zack about how he wanted to shoot, specifically, the sex scene in the Owl Ship, and what he wanted to show, and what he wanted to show about the characters. In the end, yes, not only is it beautiful and classy and visually interesting, it’s also funny and a great release (ha ha ha, pun intended).

But that’s sort of the point of it all. I sat there with my wife and we were both sort of astonished and laughing. She literally high-fived me at the end of the scene. [Laughs] Because it was so important for those characters. Honestly it felt like you were sort of cheering like, “thank god.”

And the other side of it is, you never see it in these types of movies. It’s not just the nudity, but you never see it, and that’s the thing with this script and this movie that you try to, without being presumptuous about it, the whole point of this comic, when it came out, was going as far as you can in that genre. I feel like that is what this movie does. It goes that far with violence, it should go that far with the love scenes, and that far with the language and that far with the humor. I think that’s sort of the point of what you’re aiming for, and I’d like to think that’s what they were aiming for when they wrote the comic.

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Question: Were either of you familiar with the source material before you got the role?

Patrick Wilson: I had heard of it, but I didn’t know the comic at all. I sort of came into it all with the script, and I think Malin and I both had the same visceral reaction: what the hell is this?! It was amazing, it was crazy, it was like nothing either of us had expected. I called my friend, who’s a huge comic fan. I always call him with whatever comic script I have at the time, and when I said, “Watchmen,” he went, “Oh God!” I sort of gauged the interest and fear of the average Watchmen fan right there. So I knew going into it that it was a very special piece and that we were really treading on hallowed ground. Then I went out and got the graphic novel, and was just so blown away by it. Even though I didn’t grow up reading a lot of comics, I always had a great respect for them. I felt like this was everything that they could be: almost Greek in its importance to literature.

Malin Ackerman: The first contact I had with anything to do with Watchmen was the script, which was amazing. I just kind of went, “Wow, I’ve got to get the source material for this.” Anybody who reads Watchmen, there’s no way you can’t become a fan. I was shocked because–having watched superhero films and seen my cousins reading Batman with the “Pow!” and the “Pop!”–this was something completely different. It was amazing to finally read it and understand why people are so in love with it. It’s well worth the pedestal it’s been placed on.

Q: You two play superheroes, but you’re both sort of the Everymen of the piece. Was it difficult to strike that balance?

PW: I think the point of the comic is that you don’t cater to that stereotype. This was really the deconstruction of the superhero. Outside of Dr. Manhattan, there’s nobody who’s really a superhero. Actors only know how to play it organically. Luckily, we were given such great source material and a really faithful script. Your character is so detailed throughout the course of these issues that you know exactly where he comes from, what he does… you don’t have to cut corners because it’s a genre film. That’s what was so exciting about it.

MA: If you take away the costumes and the crime-fighting elements, it’s really just an exploration of how far human nature can go. The rawness of these characters makes it so hard to call it a superhero film. It’s really its own thing.

Q: Malin, how treacherous was it working in the heels?

MA: It makes it a lot tougher. But at the same time, as a woman, when you put on a pair of heels, you present yourself in a different way that you do when you’re wearing flats. It was way more difficult to do it in heels, but at the same time, it just gave that extra sort of “oomph” to the whole outfit and finished it. Here’s a woman who’s fighting, instead of one of the guys. They’re steel-toed too. Steel stiletto-ed. That could poke an eye out.

Q: How did you approach the sex scenes? There’s the two scenes: the one where it’s not really working, and then the smoking hot scene with the costumes.

PW: For me, that is the cornerstone of this character. The essence of Dan’s struggle. Giggling aside, nothing makes you feel like less of a man than that. There’s this incredible sadness and loss of not being able to perform. Not feeling important. Not feeling like a man. Not feeling like he can do anything. One of my favorite panels in the book is Dan sitting there looking at the badge with the suit behind him, and then moving to naked Dan looking at the suit, and then the climactic sex scene in the Owlship. That’s the journey: in some ways, the most primal journey these characters take.

MA: It becomes the conclusion of what makes us feel passion in life. For Laurie, I think she’s trying to figure out who she is. She’s been pushed into this career by her mother, like a stage mom, and this is her chance to figure out who she is and what she really wants. I think she eventually realizes that this is the man she wants to be with, because he’s a real man and he cares for her, and she’s never felt like this before. That passion and that drive: where does it come from? She finds out and she puts on that outfit–and it’s her choice, not her mother’s–and suddenly everything just clicks and it gets us going. It’s an amazing thing to feel: when you’re happy in one part of life, everything sort of falls into place.

Q: Patrick, you had to wear the cowl, which covers up a lot of your face. Did that make performing those scenes more of a challenge?

PW: I didn’t really think of it like that. So much of film acting is expression in the eyes, so when you put those goggles on you make a choice–what is this character hiding? Certainly with Dan, so much of that ties into his sight. When he wears the goggles or his glasses in the book, when he doesn’t, and what that means about his sight problems, what kind of problems he has. We got pretty deep into that. But I didn’t really feel any struggles with the mask on, because we would just pick and choose the scene where he takes it off if we needed him to be more expressive.

Q: Did you realize at some point while you were shooting that you had become the subject of impassioned debate on the Internet among the fans?

PW: Well, we were shooting. I think it would have been the death of us if we’d looked.

MA: That’s the thing. Obviously everyone is completely entitled to their opinion, but when you’re getting into character on set, it’s not time for that yet. You’ve just got to focus and be present and do your thing. Once the movie comes out, then judgment and debate is welcome on that finished project. Regardless of what people say, I am so proud of this. This is the best thing I’ve ever been a part of, and no one can bring me down from that.

PW: I actually knew I got the part early on, so I was sort of sitting on this information for months. You’d see interviews with people talking about other actors they’d like to see in the role, and it inoculates you a bit. But there have been so many attempts to make this film over the years… I actually find it interesting. Fifteen years ago, it would have been a totally different cast. And ten years ago, and five years ago, and three years ago. For this time to shoot this movie, I just feel so fortunate that we were the guys who got it. I don’t fault anyone for wanting anybody else. For Dan, people would get really passionate about the weight issue. “This guy’s overweight,” and “that guy’s the right age for it.” Even if it’s positive, there’s nothing you can really do with that. All you can do it your work: if you give the most honest performance you can, then the work will stand for itself.