Monica Bellucci said she felt slightly frightened filming an unusual sex scene in the 2007 action film Shoot ‘Em Up. The scene combines sensuality, comedy and extreme violence, as Bellucci and Clive Owen continue having sex while Owen’s character shoots armed attackers entering the room.

Bellucci noted that such scenes can be difficult, but praised Owen’s generosity, humour and professionalism for helping make it work. The article places the sequence within the film’s deliberately outrageous style, contrasting it with Bellucci’s more harrowing work in Irréversible and noting that a similar idea later appeared in Drive Angry.