Benicio del Toro Was an Early Bloomer

Actor Benicio del Toro attends "Che" Japan Premiere at Roppongi Hills on December 16, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. The film will open on January 10. (Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Benicio del Toro (Getty Images)more pics »Benicio del Toro apparently didn't buy the idea that girls had cooties. The 42-year-old actor first became interested in the opposite sex when he was a toddler, and claims it was a natural progression for him to lose his virginity when he was just 13.

Benicio and Halle in a scene together (via Cleveland.com)
He told Playboy magazine: “I remember liking girls in pre-kindergarten in Puerto Rico, when I was only three or four. I was about 13 when I lost my virginity, and that first experience was totally a nervous situation. It was in a house with someone I had known only a little bit. She was slightly older, and she’d done it before… I wasn’t exactly a natural, but it was good. I had wanted it to happen for a while.”

Benicio filmed a love scene with Halle Berry for the 2007 movie Things We Lost in the Fire, and admits he found it difficult to shoot. He explained: “She was completely absorbed by her role, so you had to respect that. I think she was quoted as saying I was fun on the set. Maybe I wanted to relax the situation by joking around as a way to get over that. Maybe I was nervous and that was one of the ways to deflect that other tension.”

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