Sex makes Sarah fall asleep
2008-03-28 15:46
Los Angeles - Sarah Michelle Gellar nearly fell asleep during her sex scene in Southland Tales.
The 30-year-old actress - who plays a porn star in the new film - struggled to stay awake for the raunchy sequence because she had just eaten a huge Thanksgiving turkey dinner.
She said: "I filmed a love scene on Thanksgiving and I had eaten all this turkey and mashed potatoes.
"I was like, 'I seriously have to film a sex scene right now?' I was so tired from all the tryptophan - an amino acid in turkey that makes you sleepy - that I just wanted to sleep!"
Gellar also claims she knew she had made it as an actress when she saw a porn spin-off of her hit US TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
She added to Britain's Maxim magazine: "I think there was a Muffy the Vampire Layer.
"We had a cast viewing in one of the trailers. You know you've made it when they make a porn version of you!" - Bang Showbiz.com