Portia de Rossi is dating Ellen DeGeneres and everyone knows she is a lesbian, but according to her she felt a little uncomfortable bringing her real life sexuality to filming a sex scene with Joely Richardson on ‘Nip/Tuck’. 

Portia, who played Richardson’s lover, in ‘Nip/Tuck’ told People magazine,

“I hate gratuitous sex scenes. I’m a prude, I really am. I related to Joely’s character so much more than my own. She was having a really hard time with her sexuality, and it was difficult for her to tell people she was gay. To hear her struggle like that was very emotional for me.”

However, Joely said she really enjoyed the sex scenes with Portia. She confessed,

“I have no problems kissing women. It’s not the first time I have done lesbian scenes. I have heard Ellen was jealous. She has been on set. She is great and Portia is lovely. Please don’t think there is anything going on between us.”

Portia also had been worried about being type-cast as a lesbian is she took the role, but Ellen was very quick in telling her not to worry. 

“My relationship with Ellen is so public, and I thought, ‘Am I going to play a romantic lead again?’ I had that one moment of, ‘Does this mean I’ll be typecast as a lesbian?’ And Ellen turned to me and said, ‘So what?’ And I thought, ‘Oh, yeah, right, so what?’I was offered romantic lead roles, and I turned them down because the lesbian seemed more interesting to me. It’s so crazy because I never faced any kind of discrimination. Here, it’s all scripted, but it still stings. It was a very interesting thing for me to experience. I’d walk away at the end of the day not feeling very good.”

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