Connelly: 'Sex scenes aren't a big deal'

Jennifer Connelly has insisted that actors shouldn't make a big deal out of doing sex scenes.

The Oscar-winning actress admitted that it was "embarrassing" to shoot intimate scenes with co-stars but also revealed her opinion that they were over-hyped.

She told the The Guardian: "Sex scenes are incredibly awkward, they're always uncomfortable. I think they're overused and people get very flustered by them.

"People don't know how to discuss them and there's a lot of embarrassment. It's not my favourite thing to do, but there are circumstances in which they make sense. I just wish people wouldn't dance around them."

Connelly added that she was glad that she did not have to get intimate with husband Paul Bettany in their upcoming movie Creation, which centres around the scientist Charles Darwin.

She explained: "There are certain scenarios people don't want to see, like a married couple having sex in a film. But I don't want to see a sexy movie about Charles Darwin, and the filmmakers didn't want to make that film, so it seemed like there was nothing about our personal pairing that could take away from the film."