Kate Bosworth Covers BlackBook, Found Violent Straw Dogs Scenes “Terrifying”

September 1, 2011 by Hollywoodite

Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard cover BlackBook this month, on dual covers, promoting Straw Dogs. Their relationship off-screen in this regard is a little confusing. They were an on-off couple for several years before what appears to have been a permanent split in July. And despite rumours they were together during the filming of Straw Dogs, both claim they were just friends during the shoot (since the split, Skarsgard has been photographed flirting with multiple women and Bosworth has been clinging on to assorted randoms for staged photos).

Anyway, the former couple is not forthcoming about their relationship and they keep it pretty much about their work on Straw Dogs, a pretty brutal movie remake 1971 Dustin Hoffman film. There’s a much talked about scene of sexual assault against Bosworth (not a spoiler, they’ve been talking about it for months), perpetrated by Skarsgard. It sounds damn brutal. For the scene, big as he is, he basically has to beat on her and pretend to violate her in front of several dozen male crew.

“The panic you see flooding me in that rape scene is real.” The scene in question, which came early in the shoot, sees Skarsgard’s Charlie, an aggressive farmhand, rape Bosworth’s character Amy.

“I told Alex not to worry about me, to just go for it,” she recalled in an interview with BlackBook. “I said, ‘I need you to lose yourself in this moment.’” And it was actually violent. He’s a huge guy. When he was ripping off my clothes in front of a room filled with men, even though I knew it was make-believe, it was still incredibly violating and terrifying.

“Alex is so kind and so dedicated and so incredibly professional,” she says. “He’s got this rare, wonderful control and stillness that you notice in a lot of old movie stars. He looks you in the eye. I feel incredibly lucky to have had that type of man on this movie.”

Skarsgard says making the movie was ‘exhausting on an emotional level’ but also found it easier because he was working with Bosworth.

“We were just really good friends at the time, but we shared a really special experience on that film,” he told BlackBook. “Kate is such a great actress and she is so much more than a good-looking Hollywood starlet.” -via The Daily Mail.

PHOTO CREDIT – BLACKBOOK MAGAZINE