Angelina Jolie-Pitt Says Filming Love Scene With Brad Pitt Was 'Strangest Thing'

The actress starred in and directed the upcoming film, "By The Sea."

ByABC News
November 12, 2015, 5:18 PM

— -- Angelina Jolie-Pitt has filmed plenty of intimate scenes in her career, but with husband Brad Pitt playing her onscreen love interest in her latest film, the actress is revealing how "weird" it is to film a love scene with her real-life love.

Jolie-Pitt opened up to Entertainment Weekly about filming a sex scene with Pitt for her new movie, "By The Sea," which in addition to starring in, Jolie-Pitt also wrote, directed and produced.

"I’ve done sex scenes before. But this is obviously different," Jolie-Pitt said.

"It’s the strangest thing in the world to be lying naked in a bathtub with an iPad that’s showing you the shot outside, while your husband is at the door and you’re directing him to come in and make love to you...in front of a bunch of other men with cameras," she said.

Jolie-Pitt revealed that Pitt was on "towel duty" during the filming of the sex scene.

“I couldn’t get out of the bathtub to get to the monitor because the director is naked,” Jolie-Pitt said. “We’re artists and want to be free, but Brad...it’s his wife. He was on towel duty. He’d hold the towel over me."

Jolie-Pitt also admitted that the only way to get through filming the intimate scenes was simply to laugh it off.

"Love scenes are strange anyway, but when you’re doing a love scene with a person that you really have sex with? The only way to get through it was for us to all talk about the absurdity of it and make sure no one was feeling awkward," Jolie-Pitt said. "We made as many jokes as possible.”

"By The Sea" will be released this Friday, Nov. 13.