MATT DAMON ON ONE-TAKE LIBERACE GAY SEX SCENE

Michael Douglas and Matt Damon feature on the cover of the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly as gay pianist Liberace and his lover, Scott Thorson.

The actors feature in the upcoming biographical movie about Liberace, directed by Steven Soderbergh, titled Behind the Candelabra, which will premiere in the US in May.

According to the magazine, the stars “give a frank, funny interview about filming one of the weirdest, glitziest gay love stories ever put on film, one that required both actors to do things they’d never done before onscreen”.

In the interview, Damon (42) talks about having to wear nothing but a metallic thong and tiny swimsuits.

“Every Sunday night, this girl would come to my house and I would stand in my garage and I would hike my boxer briefs up into the crack of my a– and she would give me a spray tan,” explains Damon who wasn’t too excited about his real-life wife seeing his bronzed backside.

“We’ve been through three childbirths, we’ve been in the trenches, there are no secrets. But I really wish she didn’t see that. That’s too much,” he says jokingly.

Damon also speaks about his and Douglas’ many sex scenes together, noting that filming these kinds of sequences is always awkward, no matter who’s involved.

“The scene where I’m behind him and going at him, we did that in one take,” says Damon, laughing. “We do it. Cut. There’s a long pause. And then you just hear Steven go, ‘Well… I have no notes.’”

Behind the Candelabra tells the story of the relationship between Liberace, the highest paid entertainer of his era, and Thorson, which began in 1976.

In 1982, after their relationship ended, Thorson filed a $113 million lawsuit against Liberace, who denied being gay until he died. They settled out of court in 1986, with the star giving Thorson $95,000, two cars, and two dogs.

Behind the Candelabra will be broadcast on the HBO network in the US but may be shown in cinemas in other countries.