Michael Shannon on His 8 Mile Sex Scene with Kim Basinger | Screen Tests | W Magazine

In this Screen Tests interview, Michael Shannon discusses his first on-screen sex scene — with Kim Basinger in '8 Mile' — and the awkward encounter that followed. Shannon also reveals his childhood celebrity crush on Kathleen Turner in Body Heat and Prizzi's Honor, and the circumstances of his first kiss at a school dance — which, by the way, was totally unexpected. Because he didn't listen to Bon Jovi. Actor Michael Shannon has enjoyed a prolific career in Hollywood, acting in small but pivotal supporting roles in films as varied as Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile and Pearl Harbor. That is until he got noticed for his part in the Kate Winslet-Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle Revolutionary Road. That part earned him his first Academy Award nomination, a feat he repeated this year for his righteous, thoroughly Texan sheriff character in Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals. (His other two films in 2016 were Midnight Special, by Jeff Nichols, whose Loving was a critical darling all season, and Elvis & Nixon.) The late-in-life acclaim has been long in the making, and in his interview with W, he recalled his not so auspicious start: a sex scene with Kim Basinger in Hanson's 8 Mile. Love scenes, he says, is "just like having sex, except without any of the pleasure, but all the horror, fear, anxiety, sadness, and loneliness there is to enjoy." On "Nocturnal Animals": "The first time I saw the script, it said Nocturnal Animals on the front of it. It's based on a novel called Tony and Susan, but