Josh O’Connor knows how to get audiences into a cinema, and telling them about spitting into Paul Mescal’s mouth in The History of Sound may be a pretty good way of doing that, depending on your preference. The two actors star in the gay romance film set around the First World War. The film follows Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor) as they set about recording the lives and music of their countrymen. O’Connor and Mescal appeared at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado over the weekend where the film screened. During a Q&A the two discussed an intimate moment in the film, dubbed “the horniest moment,” by GQ. The scene in question involves David spitting in Lionel’s mouth during seggs. Describing how the first take went O’Connor said, “We were kind of keeping ourselves separate, and really in the characters, and then we did the first take, and it was the spit, and I just – it just dribbled down me.” He went on to say that “Paul was, like, waiting,” miming Mescal lying there with...