ONE might think that actors film all their own scenes - even the raunchy ones - but you would be mistaken. Laura Grady is a respected body double that has worked amongst the great and the good in Hollywood for decades. The actor opened up on what life is really like behind the scenes on these glittering movies.
Speaking to Vulture , she opened up on filling in for Dame Helena Bonham Carter in Fight Club. The former The Crown actress starred in the hit flick alongside the likes of Brad Pitt , Edward Norton and Jared Leto . She says the scenes in the film were so "intricate", that she considered them to be "hard-core" to shoot.
"All those scenes — it was the most intricate sex scene I’ve ever done in my life. And it was pretty hard-core," Laura explained. "We were all over each other, me and the body double.
He wanted us to choreograph it, like a dance." Although Laura did catch glimpses of the superstar actors on the set, she also says that they couldn't interact as they were all working to busy schedules. She remarked: "There was also a body double for Brad Pitt, so we spent two weeks with David Fincher on a set and green-screen, just reenacting all of those sex scenes.
"I did see Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter throughout the day, but they were never in my scenes — the body doubles did their thing, and then Brad and Helena did their thing. "So I never got to interact with Brad, unfortunately." The model also explained that there is a misconception around working on .
