How Tyler & Lucy Got Through Creepy AF Sex Scene
Your two TV show addictions - Teen Wolf and Pretty Little Liars - ended in quick succession last year and it was devastating AF. The one bright side is that your Teen Wolf and Pretty Little Liars faves, Tyler Posey and Lucy Hale, are starring in the new scary movie called Truth or Dare. And doesn't it feel good to have Scott and Aria back on your screen?!
In this movie, Tyler and Lucy play Lucas and Olivia, two college seniors who get sucked into a sinister game of truth or dare along with their friends while on spring break in Mexico. When the group returns from their trip, they realize the game has followed them home. Someone - or something - begins possessing them and making them reveal deep, dark secrets that could ruin friendships or daring them to take life-threatening risks. They have no choice but to play because if they don’t do a dare or tell the truth, they die a gruesome death.
If you recall, Tyler and Lucy thoroughly creeped out the entire internet in the movie trailer when Lucy's character becomes possessed in the middle of a hookup and begins strangling Tyler with this creepy AF smile on her face.
It's no secret that filming sex scenes is not the most comfortable experience, but add these creepy smiles to the mix, and... DANG! How did Tyler and Lucy get through filming it?
We got the chance to sit down with Tyler to talk all things Truth or Dare and he revealed that making his possessed smile face actually came pretty easily to him, because he did essentially the same thing for seven seasons of Teen Wolf.
"That possessed smile got started from an idea from our director, Jeff Wadlow. He had this idea come to him when he was a kid when he used to draw these smiles," Tyler shared about the inception of the smiles that will surely haunt your nightmares. "It was kind of specific when he was trying to relay the idea to us. It was like, 'Okay, I see it with your chin down, you're looking through the whites of your eyes, and you smile with no teeth.' And I was like, 'I do that all the time on Teen Wolf. Sounds great. That's a very Teen Wolf kind of pose.' So I was super into the idea. It made sense to me."
Still, his Teen Wolf training certainly didn't make keeping a straight face during his terrifying sex scene with Lucy easy.
"The face is awkward when you're actually doing it because you don't know how it's going to look in the final version of the film," Tyler told Seventeen.com. "That scene specifically where Lucy and I are having a sex scene and she's supposed to have that face and choke me - it's hard to not break and start laughing because doing this," he said, making the face, "It looks odd."
But working with an amazing partner like Lucy that made things easier.
"We got through it. We were very respectful actors, and respected one another, so we wouldn't laugh at one another... unless we were done. If they said 'cut,' then we laughed all we wanted," he shared.
Actually, Tyler couldn't stop gushing about how great it was to work with Lucy after years of crossing paths on red carpets at television award shows.
"Sometimes being on a long show for a long time or just doing this for a while in general, you can get a little jaded," Tyler shared. "She did not have any hint of that at all. She was a really, really, really good leader. Always down to do anything. Wouldn't complain about the long hours that we worked and gave it her all every single take. I was super blown away."
The fact that Tyler and Lucy got along so well behind the scenes probably contributed to their insane chemistry on screen. Their characters, Olivia and Lucas, definitely have a thing for each other in the movie, but the problem is, Lucas is totally dating Olivia's bestie Markie.
"That love triangle is really interesting because Lucas is the guy you want to see Lucy's character with," he admitted about the complicated chemistry between the friends. "You want them to be together. They seem like they're right for each other. They're both common sense thinkers. They both seem like they're the heart of the group. But what's interesting is that the love triangle is a little different than you would think and it goes a different way than you would think."
Could Scott and Aria, I mean, Lucas and Olivia, fall in love on the big screen? You'll have to go see Truth or Dare when it hits theaters everywhere April 13th to find out!
But you can get a taste of the terrifying action by clicking play on our exclusive clip from the movie below. In it, Lucas, Olivia, and Markie have found the mysterious stranger who lured them into the deadly game of Truth or Dare and they have to convince him to help them end the game - something that's not going to be easy considering he doesn't trust them one bit. Check it out!
Noelle Devoe is the Entertainment Editor at Seventeen.com. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram!
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