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Lymelife (2009)

Julia Roberts's Niece Discusses Her First Sex Scene—and Why It May Be Her Last

Emma Roberts may be just 18 years old, but she's already got one sex scene under her belt. Sadly the scene in question, opposite Rory Culkin (Macauley's little bro) in Lymelife, is completely non-nude, and though Mr Skin has been holding out hope that Emma was just getting her feet wet and would disrobe in the near future, the prospects don't look too promising. In fact, Roberts found the whole experience so embarrassing that she may never do a sex scene again! She told WENN:

It was kind of awkward and embarrassing. It was kind of an honest first time kind of scene, I guess. I think seeing it onscreen is more awkward actually.

I saw it when I was with one of my really good friends, one of my best friends who I've known since I was in kindergarten and she couldn't even watch. She was burying her face in my shoulder.

When we shot it I was thinking, 'This is really embarrassing. I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I'm ever going to do this again.' But then, when you're actually on the set, you just want to do it in one take and you just want to get it over with. So you just go out there and do it. I think that anticipation is almost worse than the actual scene itself.

Emma's famous aunt, Julia Roberts, has a similar disdain for sex on screen. Though she let slip a blurry peek of teat in Pretty Woman, Julia has been notoriously skingy in her career and has also decried fake film fuckery. But we were hoping that Emma would take her nudity cues from dear old dad, Eric Roberts. One of Eric's first roles was portraying the jealous boyfriend/killer of legendary Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten in the Mr Skin Hall of Fame movie Star 80. Dear Emma, when it comes to peeling for the screen, father knows best.