By now, the cast of Girls are experts on shooting awkward sex scenes. When Elijah (Andrew Rannells) finally hooked up with his sexy would-be boyfriend, Dill (Corey Stoll), last season, the scene consisted of Dill basically screaming a series of demands: “Fuck me! Stop talking! Harder! Faster! Slower! Stop, stop, stop! Now go! Go! Faster! Slower! Slower, then faster! Stop talking! Fuck me! Fuck me!â€
In an attempt to make things less uncomfortable behind the scenes, Rannells recalls making them even more awkward when he tried to fill the silences with chit-chat, he told Vulture at the season-six premiere. Since Stoll and Rannells were shooting at around 2 a.m., the night before Stoll’s wedding to his pregnant fiancée, he brought up Stoll’s impending nuptials, honeymoon plans, and the baby on the way. “While I was laying on top of him, I was like, ‘So what are your baby names? So where are you going on your honeymoon?’ Just asking dumb questions, so I could be normal. I was trying to normalize everything. I should have kept my mouth shut!†he laughed, adding hopefully, “but maybe I helped him think about the baby names. That’s possible. Let’s put a positive spin on it!â€