Ivana Milicevic sees love between violence, sex of 'Banshee'

The other big topic of discussion about this show is the sex. Which scenes are easier to film, sex or fighting?

They're both equally hard for different reasons. The fight scenes take so much out of you physically.

The sex scenes take a lot out of you emotionally because you're worried about your body, you're worried about the light, you're worried about everyone's comfort. But I trust the actors I'm working with so much. Even if it doesn't look like we're covered, we are. And I trust the crew and they deal with the whole thing very respectfully.

The sex scenes are more scary when they're shot and edited and finished. And then you're like, "Wow, that was a lot longer than I remembered it," because of the five different cameras you had set up. And the sex scenes are the shortest to shoot. We shoot those in like 20 minutes. Fight scenes take all day.

Yeah, the sex scenes [in finished episodes] end up a lot longer than you'd expect. And so it's more like how anyone would feel. It's out there for the world to see and weigh in on morally, physically—all sorts of things.

But now that I've already been through it one year, it doesn't really matter. I mean I do things that I think are right for the character. This part is the first time I've ever done it in my career so obviously—and not because I couldn't have done it before—but for this part I felt that it was really important that the characters have sex with the same intensity that they fight and live with. You know, wearing a bra in that circumstance just doesn't seem right. 

In the first season when they're at the party and there's the gunshot and she throws her husband to the ground and he's like, "What the hell?" That was a great example of her natural instincts coming out and nearly exposing her.

Exactly, like those little things are so great. And even in the pilot episode, the sex scenes are designed with quite a lot of thought. So that that sex act in the pilot was trying to really set up to show Carrie wasn't a bored housewife. Carrie and Gordon had a hot, sweet, passionate love, a passionate relationship.

And they have a sweet little family with typical teenage problems. So Lucas Hood coming into town wasn't like, "Oh, of course she's gonna get into trouble. She's been so bored." She hasn't been bored. She's been living this other life and Lucas coming into town was like a drop of alcohol to the alcoholic. Like [the sex scenes] really are there for a reason.

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