Awkward... Henry Cavill Admits 'Unacceptable' Sex Scene Arousal

It’s the question that many a handsome actor is asked in interviews, but few ever admit to having suffered the embarrassment of becoming, ahem, aroused during a sex scene.

But not our current ‘Man of Steel’ Henry Cavill.

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Speaking to Men’s Health, he admitted: “It’s only happened to me once

“A girl had to be on top of me, she had spectacular breasts and I hadn’t rearranged my stuff into a harmless position.

“She’s basically rubbing herself all over me and, um, it got a bit hard.

“I had to apologize profusely afterward. It’s not great when you’re in a professional acting environment and somebody gets a boner, is it? No, not acceptable.”

No, not generally.

Cavill does, however, then retreat into the well-trodden path of how unsexy film sets are.“You don’t think of sex scenes as showing your bum to the nation,” he said.

“It’s actually acutely uncomfortable being naked in a roomful of people. The very last thing it is is sexy.

“The actual physicality is very uncomfortable. All you’re doing is smacking your nuts against someone, and nothing is going in.”

Hmm, possibly a bit too descriptive there.

It’s not known which project the incident happened on, but the speculation so far is that it was while filming the racy TV series 'The Tudors’.

Cavill’s latest, 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’, co-starring Armie Hammer and directed by Guy Ritchie, is out on August 14.

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