Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake co-star in an upcoming futuristic thriller, In Time, where people stop aging at 25 and will die unless they buy more time. The co-stars sat down with W magazine and gave a pretty interesting and candid interview about the intimate scenes they had to shoot in the movie.
Totally unrelated to the movie, the duo posed as a tongue-in-chic presidential couple on the mag’s cover, saluting the upcoming political season.
Here are some excerpts from their interview:
On what is romantic:
Justin: “To me, romance is not just about love. I recently saw Lust, Caution, and it’s tragic and romantic. I don’t know how they shot those [sex] scenes. Those scenes looked crazy.”
On finding the romance in every role she plays:
Amanda: “It’s set in the future, where money buys you time. My character falls in love with Justin’s character—she wants to give him all the time he needs so he can save the world. It’s very romantic. No matter what’s happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.”
On sex scenes with JT:
Amanda: “Sex scenes are great. A lot of my costars have been sexy guys my age, and so, why not? I’m not going to pretend it’s not fun. Justin was great—he had come from doing Friends With Benefits, where he basically had sex every day at work—and so it was easy for both of us. We just kind of got it on, and then were like, ‘That was good!'”
On “bringing sexy back”:
Justin: “It does seem brash. But truthfully, I didn’t see myself in that song. I wanted people to feel as if they were saying the lyrics themselves. I imagined guys and girls, and guys and guys, and girls and girls singing it to each other in Ibiza or in a club in Manhattan or at a huge open-air festival. At the end of the day, I hope it was a song that people used. Because that was always my experience with music—I put myself in the mind and movement of the artist. I don’t think Michael Jackson really thought he was “bad,” but you felt like you were bad when you sang that song.”
