Brand-new, horny Plainclothes clip sees Russell Tovey and Tom Blyth get very intimate
Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey in Plainclothes. (Magnolia Pictures)
In the horny clip from the highly anticipated film, shared by Queerty, Blyth and Tovey are intimately close, pulling their bodies together. It sets the tone for what’s to come from Carmen Emmi’s feature debut.
Plainclothes centres on the cruising culture of New York in 1997. The film follows young, closeted cop Lucas (Blyth) tasked with luring and entrapping men cruising for sex. But then he meets Andrew (Tovey) and falls into a romantic connection.
In the breathtakingly intense clip, the men have their first meet-up in the corner of a cinema lobby.
“Can I touch you? Blink once for no, twice for yes,” Andrew whispers to Lucas. They cram themselves into a corner, with murmurs of people not too far away.
Lucas blinks twice and Andrew then tucks his hands beneath Lucas’ coat, bringing their bodies closer, nose to nose.
“Do you do this a lot?” Lucas asks.
“Not really… it doesn’t usually feel like this,” Andrew admits.
Initial teasers for the film show Lucas beginning to entrap Andrew, setting the stage for an intense game of cat and mouse. Furthermore, there’s a healthy dose of some equally intense sex scenes.
‘There is a ton of love’
Speaking to Queerty about the scene, director Emmi outlined: “I really wanted it to be that first moment where they really connected.
“There’s a little scene right beforehand, which is literally a Grindr conversation, that many of us have all the time, in dialogue form.
“So when they eventually got past that and they got deeper, I wanted it to be in this beautiful space, which is why I set it there.”
Emmi also added that he had great trust in his actors, Blyth and Tovey.
“I just wanted to be as present as possible for them,” he explained. “A big part of my job was stepping back from what I wrote, letting them do their thing.”
Emmi notes: “Oftentimes, being queer can be associated with loneliness and fear and anxiety… those things are all true – but there is a ton of love.
“I really want people to stick around for love, and I want people to stick around for the connection that they could have and not write it off because of fear or anxiety.”
On Watch What Happens Live (WWHL), Russell Tovey was asked a simple question with a cheeky twist: Who is his favourite on-stage or on-screen kiss? Sitting beside his Plainclothes co-star Tom Blyth, Tovey first praised the man next to him. “Tom is a beautiful kisser. He has very soft lips,” he said, before host Andy Cohen nudged him to name someone else. Tovey picked Jonathan Groff from Looking, adding that they did “lots of kissing.”
