After more than 25 years, Joshua Jackson still blushes about one of his first onscreen sex scenes.
The actor, who played Blaine Tuttle in 1999’s Cruel Intentions, recently recalled an encounter with co-star Eric Mabius “years” after they shared a brief gay sex scene in the Roger Kumble-helmed teen movie, a modern deconstruction of Dangerous Liaisons.
“I wasn’t on Cruel Intentions very much, but I do believe that my first day on this movie was giving a man head,” he told Men’s Health. “And that can be stressful for a 19-year old heterosexual boy, to sit in a room, and give another man a blowjob.”
Jackson said his “stress test” in the role was “to commit myself to this job that I had taken on, and really make sure… that I was all-in, so to speak.”
In the hit film, Blaine gets closeted jock Greg McConnell (Mabius) in bed as part of a scheme with pal Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) to blackmail him.
“So then years pass—and I don’t see Eric after a long time after we’ve had this experience together—and I’m taking out my trash one day, and he and his wife walk by, because they’ve just moved in down the street,” he continued.
“She sees us see each other and have this moment of like, ‘Hey, what’s up?’ And she’s like, ‘Oh, how do you guys know each other?’” said Jackson. “And the two of us, now well into our 30s, I think both blushed scarlet red. Like, how do you explain what that connection was?”
