Gaspar [Gaspar Noé] is constantly watching films and sending me titles. I watched Ai no korîda (1976). I watched Don't Look Now (1973). I admire Mark Rylance immensely. He did a movie called Intimacy (2001), where you see him put a condom on. I thought if Mr. Rylance could do it, and I want to be like him, I could follow. It was very hard to prepare when you don't know what you're going to shoot and you don't have any dialogue to memorize.[2015]

[on shooting the threeway sex scenes in Love (2015)] One time in high school, on New Year's I kissed two girls at once, but this was the first time I've been naked with two girls in the same bed.

[on how he won the lead role in Love] I went to France to get over an ex, and when I was there I met a girl in a club who was working the door and we got to talking. She found out I was an actor and she said "Do you like French cinema? What's your favorite movie?" I said Enter the Void. And she was like oh, Gaspar - That's my friend. Of course I didn't believe her. Then six months later she texts me and says "Babe send me a selfie, Gaspar wants an American for his next movie." So I sent a picture on my phone and then pretty soon he Skypes me and we're just talking and emailing back and forth and I'm sending him videos that I made back in New York with my friends. We were talking and writing every other day. Pretty soon he was like "Can you come out to France?" I said "Yeah," and he said "Great, you have a flight at 4:30 today." I was like, "Okay I'll pack a back-pack." I went out there for two days. We hung out, we went to a lot of cafés and bars and went dancing a couple times. I think he was just seeing if he liked being around me, and then finally he let me read the outline. He was so secretive about the thing. So he finally let me read it and we did some camera tests. And that was that.

[on how Gaspar Noe offered him the lead role in Love] Gaspar first asked me how I was to which I replied, "I'm well. You?" He then asked me, "So... how do you feel about your erect cock in my film?" I said, "Well, I don't think I'll be inviting my mother to the premier..."

[on doing full frontal nudity in his very first film] To do full frontal you have to be completely comfortable with everything that's going on down there. Or just really uncomfortable and say fuck it here we go. There were times when we were laying on the bed and it was cold in the room, and I was getting self conscious about that and he said, "In this shot your dick is small, in the next shot it will be big." There's dick of all different shapes and sizes in this movie. My dick has it's own character arc. So there was no digital enhancement, there were no weights added. It's all au naturel. It'll definitely be a focus. Whenever you put a cock in a movie, people tend to put a focus on it. The thing about the full frontal is, I really wanted to work with Gaspar. I was up for anything Gaspar had in mind because who knows if I'd ever have another chance to work with him. And Gaspar demands a lot, he wants daring people. And I need to try challenging things.

[on being shot by cinematographer Benoit Debie] I was very proud to see myself in a picture shot by Benoit Debie. There is a reason why Gaspar likes working with him, the man is a genius with light. This is by far the most beautifully shot movie I have ever been a part of. I am proud.

[on the stress of the Love almost getting canceled] It was so stressful for me to hear the updates. It was literally a fine line between you're doing a movie in 3D, the most insane movie in 3D with your favorite director, or you're not. All this crazy stuff happened where the funding for the movie fell through days before we were actually supposed to start shooting. It got so down to the line whether or not the movie was happening, whether or not it was going to be in 3D. Then the lead actress dropped out. It was a famous English supermodel before. I mean I'm not going to say her name, because she was originally supposed to be in the movie but for personal reasons had to drop out.

[on how some of the risqué shots in Love were achieved] There are a few ejaculations in the movie. They had to use some computer effects to enhance one of the ejaculations, make the ejaculation pop a little bit. You as an audience member get a 3D facial.

[on the legacy of his debut film Love (2015)] It's going to go down as one of the more risqué films in history. It's a love story but yeah, the sex scenes are in 3D. I may be the first full frontal in 3D, not in porn but in a feature film with a world-wide theatrical release. If so, I feel like Neal Armstrong. The thought of the movie exciting people pleases me. Ultimately, I hope people like what the movie does to them. It's not a traditional movie. It's better to be open to the unexpected.