MOVIE stars Sophie Lee and Adam Garcia took a moonlight dip in Newcastle Ocean Baths in the early hours of 17th December.
It was a romantic scene, except for the presence of lights and cameras.
New scenes for Tap Dogs star Dein Perry's $6million tap-dance feature film, Bootmen, were being shot in Newcastle.
Cast and crew called `cut' about dawn yesterday, after about 10 hours on the set.
Producer Hilary Linstead said Bootmen financiers Hollywood studio Fox Searchlight and the Australian Film Finance Corporation had liked Perry's first cut of the film so much they wanted to spend more money on it.
Insisting it was not a reshoot, which usually suggests a film has a few problems, Linstead said the pool scenes would expand on the relationship at the centre of the plot.
Bootmen, which had a four-week shoot in Newcastle in July, is the story of two tap-dancing steelworker brothers from Newcastle who are in love with the same girl.
Garcia and Sam Worthington play the brothers and former Dudley girl Lee plays their sweetheart.
The `romantic scene' shot early yesterday featured Lee and Garcia having `a midnight swim'.
`It's an intimate, tricky little scene ... with a very, very complicated lighting set-up,' Linstead said.
The actors used hot water bottles to keep warm between takes.
Linstead said the audience at a US test screening three weeks ago had been `blown away' by Bootmen's `Newcastle locales'.
`That was specifically mentioned in the surveys,' she said.
`People actually said how great it looks and how they really believed in all the visuals and believed in the setting.'
So US audiences just wanted to see Adam in more love scenes -huh!!! - I can sympathise with that one.