Stephen Rea on filming the "surprise" in The Crying Game

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It wasn’t shocking to do. I’m sure everybody that does love scenes tells you: All you’re thinking about is the camera position. So it looks pretty shocking in the movie but it wasn’t shocking to do. The shock for me was when Neil Jordan — before I’d even read a script — I had dinner with him and he said, "Do you want to do this movie?" And he explained the whole story to me, and then says, "And then they go back to her apartment and she undresses and she’s a guy." I immediately said, "I’ll do it," because I was aware of what the impact of it was. But it was quite daring at the time. I must say, I don’t think I’d ever seen a penis on a screen before.

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