Thandie Newton is a very beautiful woman. Gerard Butler is a very beautiful man. Both of them have shown on multiple occasions that they have no problem with a script that calls for them to do love scenes - so why wasn't there one in 'RocknRolla' when they starred together? The two stars got along fine - this was actually a repeat of the situation with Reece Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson.
On the day the (very intimate) love scene was supposed to be filmed, Butler was 'literally dripping' with a cold, and Newton didn't want any part of it. Saying that Butler was 'very unwell indeed,' Newton says she went to director Guy Ritchie and told him he was going to have to think of something else, because she wouldn't kiss him. Ritchie somehow managed to pull it out of the bag with some clever camerawork.