Neon Bull

There are two very explicit scenes in the film that Juliano Cazarré had trouble shooting. In the scene where he had to masturbate a horse, he was sure that Gabriel Mascaro had planned to use a prosthesis. Instead, when the director told him that he would have to actually touch the horse's penis, he refused to continue unless Mascaro did the same first. So in the end they both masturbated the horse. The other scene that caused Cazarré great embarrassment was the one in which he had to have sex with Samya De Lavor, who was really 8 months pregnant. Mascaro asked Cazarré to have an erection at the beginning of the scene, suggesting that he wanted the sex to be real. Cazarré didn't want to do it ("I'm not a porn actor," he said), also because he knew De Lavor's husband (Demick Lopes, also an actor), with whom he had worked in Bald Mountain (2013). At the beginning of the scene Cazarré pretended to penetrate, but then his partner, evidently more at ease with the situation, made him understand with her movements and looks that she wanted to go all the way.

Referenced in The Human Voice (2020)