“Antichrist” features sex scenes that are actually real, so it’s understandable why the main actors required body doubles for the erotic sequences. Willem Dafoe noted that both he and Charlotte Gainsbourg are married in real life. As such, having them engage in unsimulated coitus could have added their names to the list of actors whose nude scenes got them in trouble in real life.
“Lars used a porn actor for those scenes. It was a good decision because, if it was me, then that’s all that people would talk about,” Dafoe told Dazed. “Obviously Lars wants the characters to have genitals, but it would become a distraction: ‘Oh, they really had sex!’ If he had asked me to do it, I don’t know what I would have said.”
The issue with Dafoe’s confusing genitalia wasn’t the only challenging behind-the-scenes scenario the cast and crew faced while making the film. The actor claimed that “Antichrist” had an evil feeling on the set, so it probably wasn’t the most ideal environment for showing his private parts to the rest of the world.
