Angelia Jolie described filming sex scenes with the person with whom she had sex as the “strangest thing” she has ever done. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Jolie said that directing and filming their forthcoming film By the Sea with her husband, Brad Pitt, was quite difficult.

“I’ve done sex scenes before,” the actress told the magazine. “But this is obviously different. I almost wish every woman could have this experience.”

“It’s the strangest thing in the world to be lying naked in a bathtub with an iPad that’s showing you the shot outside, while your husband is at the door and you’re directing him to come in and make love to you. In front of a bunch of other men with cameras.”

She acknowledges that Pitt, 51, was too protective of her.

“I couldn’t get out of the bathtub to get to the monitor because the director is naked,” she laughs. “We’re artists and want to be free, but Brad — it’s his wife. He was on towel duty. He’d hold the towel over me.”

Jolie-Pitt also revealed that the only way she got through filming the intimate sequences was to laugh it off.

“Love scenes are strange anyway, but when you’re doing a love scene with a person that you really have sex with? The only way to get through it was for us to all talk about the absurdity of it and make sure no one was feeling awkward,” Jolie-Pitt said. “We made as many jokes as possible.”

Jolie said that she felt concerned about her naked body when filming the sequences due to her double mastectomy. The actress, on the other hand, is delighted she did it. “The surgeries still allow you to be a woman,” Jolie, who chose the prophylactic surgery since she carries the breast cancer gene, said. “I hope other women — anyone who is worried about those issues and how [your body] can feel or look — can see that through [the scene]. I’m happy that will be in there if that answers something for them.”

On the set, things weren’t always that serious. Jolie discusses some of the “crazy” acts she and Pitt performed as their characters.

“Brad and I had this one day when we were like, ‘Let’s just do ridiculous things and see what happens,’” she recalled. “By the end of it, he had pissed all over my shoes, I had packed up the entire [hotel] room to leave, and he wrote ‘pillhead’ with an arrow on my head with a Sharpie while [my character] was sleeping.”

Those moments, it appears, did not make it into the film, which is set to be released in the United States this week. We’re not sure if that’s a good thing.

By the Sea will be released in cinemas on November 13th.