Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal had a very intimate moment on the set of their new movie, The History of Sound.

The actors play Lionel Worthing (Mescal) and David White (O’Connor), who bond over music and the trauma of World War I. After the war, the pair travel through rural Maine collecting folk songs of their fellow countrymen, while also developing feelings for one another.

During a post-screening Q&A at Telluride Film Festival last weekend, O’Connor, 35, described what it was like shooting a particularly steamy scene with Mescal, 29.

“We were kind of keeping ourselves separate, and really in the characters, and then we did the first take, and it was the spit, and I just — it just dribbled down me, and Paul was like waiting,” O’Connor said, indicating that Mescal was lying on his back

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