>In a 2001 lengthy column for The Guardian, Alexander Linklater described the jealousy he experienced when his partner Kerry Fox took the real-sex role in this movie. Linklater concludes that he accepted the unsimulated oral scene, but he insists that the sexual intercourse is an illusion.[3] Nevertheless, critics have declared its realist tendencies. Linda Williams, for instance, writes that "Intimacy opens with urgent, hurried and explicit penetrative sex"[7] and Tanya Krzywinska writes that in this first scene "the spectator is left in little doubt that penetration has occurredAre scenes like that necessary in film? Like why did she need to actually suck mark rylance's cock? Isn't that the whole point of acting, to pretend? Brad pitt doesn't do his own stunts in film and nobody cares because it's all pretend
