Tea Leoni on Sauna Sex

In the dry, new Mob-informed comedy You Kill Me, her character, tart-tongued advertising saleswoman Laurel, pulls a knife on a guy to aid her unlikely new beau, alcoholic hitman Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley), so what’s the craziest thing that Téa Leoni has done for love?

“I would have to say sex in a sauna is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done,” reflects Leoni with a slightly canted head, “but David (Duchovny, her husband) and I were in the throes of our newfound passion. And… don’t do that. Dry heat, air, need air, quick, get air, vomit… horrible,” she says, shaking her head. “It was terrible, [except] for the first four minutes, maybe. After that it was… no. I felt ill for about eight hours afterwards, I was completely dehydrated. And then, it’s not like you have cushions in there…”