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If you went to see Kingsman: The Golden Circle this past weekend, there is one scene in the movie that is so outrageous it's hard to believe even as you're watching it. It's so nuts, we had to ask director Matthew Vaughn about it—so naturally, spoilers follow.

In The Golden Circle, a full-scale assault on the Kingsman organization leaves Eggsy (Taron Egerton) without a team, so he's forced to go to America and enlist the help of the Statesman, the Whiskey-distilling Stateside counterpart to the Kingsman. As part of the Statesman plan to track down the mysterious Golden Circle, Eggsy has to plant a tracer in a woman named Clara von Gluckfberg (Poppy Delevingne) at a music festival. And that isn't a typo—he actually has to place it in her, via a finger condom.

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And then the camera follows the tracer all the way to its final resting place, in a CGI sequence that's both explicit and not—the film doesn't actually show any discernible genitalia, but there is no question about what's actually being depicted. Complicating matters further is that Eggsy is now in a relationship with Tilde, the princess of Sweden he saved at the end of The Secret Service. Wracked with guilt, he calls Tilde right before seducing von Gluckfberg, telling her what he has to do and apologizing in advance. Tilde, naturally, is not pleased, and threatens to leave him if he goes through with the plan in its current form—and when he does, she stops answering his calls.

"Welcome to the weird world of my mind," Matthew Vaughn said when I asked him about it at the end of a discussion we had last week. "I just thought it was funny, I don't know where it came from. Eggsy had to plant the bug, but by planting the bug, he's ruining his relationship. So there's drama to it, on an emotional level. It's not just a gimmick. There's craziness to what you're watching, but there's also the turmoil your lead character is going through, having to do this. So that's why I think you can connect with it."

His sentiment is one that's very much in line with that of his co-writer Jane Goldman, who argued that the scene is there to both surprise audiences and also subvert usual spy-movie sex scenes where the man is the one whose pleasure matters most at the expense of a woman's. Vaughn also goes a step further: He thinks movies are playing things too safe.

"You don't actually see anything," Vaughn says. "But it's quite fun to watch how people react to it. And again, that's what I'm trying to do in cinema, give you moments that after you're going to want to discuss. And people will either love it or hate it—when I was a kid we used to come out of the movies and debate everything: 'Can you believe that,' and 'that, that was great.' Now I go to the cinema a lot—I like hanging around in the foyer afterwards, and literally people start talking about what they're going to do after! There used to be a big debate, and now I think most movies, you sometimes think, Oh, I wish I could have those two hours back."

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