Patrick and Richie’s latest bedding was
one for the ages! Find out what Jonathan had to say about the
behind-the-scenes awkwardness.
Looking fans have enjoyed watching Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and Richie
(Raúl Castillo) explore their relationship during the HBO series’ first
season, and the word “explore” was never more appropriate than on the
show’s Feb. 16 episode. Was it a hot scene? Yes. Was it also an awkward
scene? Most definitely.
“You can’t lie in those scenes,”
Jonathan recently told E! Online at the Savannah College Art and
Design’s aTVfest. “You can’t fake those scenes.”
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Jonathan is, of course, referring to one of the episode’s first scenes,
which found Patrick back in bed with Richie after deciding there was no
way he could go to work and leave his boyfriend all alone. Things
escalated quickly, with Richie going downtown — clever camerawork, by
the way — and bringing Patrick to, shall we say, climax? (Wait, that
actually wasn’t a euphemism. He climaxed.)
Anyway, Patrick dropped a lot of f-bombs and c-bombs — not that c-bomb,
the other one — before eventually completing his mission. Patrick and
Richie later had a discussion about spitting vs. swallowing, but after
what we’d just witnessed, we were barely paying attention to what they
said afterwards.
While Jonathan is no stranger to simulating sex acts — he co-starred
opposite Lea Michele in the racy Broadway musical Spring Awakening, for
starters — it must have been super-awkward to film, especially with
director Reed Morano literally in bed with him and Raul.
“We were in bed, and there she was in bed, capturing what was
happening,” Jonathan explained. “She said, ‘This is the hottest sex
scene I’ve ever experienced shooting.’” (
source)