itsajensenthing:

Wow. How did you cope with that? 
— [I] trust him, and he trusted me and we knew that we could go a little further maybe then you normally would with physicality of a scene because we trusted one another as actors…. he and I were kind of able to take it to the next level because there was a trust, a mutual trust between the two of us. The more real it is, I think, the better the performance can be because you’re surrounding yourself with more life-like elements that help the performance. 
It did look real.
— Well, because it was.