American comedy icon Kate McKinnon had no problem getting ‘sexually aggressive’ with her The Roses co-star Benedict Cumberbatch.

The new film – written by Tony McNamara and directed by Jay Roach – follows Theo (Cumberbatch) and Ivy Rose (Olivia Colman) as they try to hold their marriage together.

While Colman and Cumberbatch deliver the kind of dry wit and razor-sharp one-liners typical of British dark comedy, McKinnon and Andy Samberg inject a more American slapstick energy as married couple Amy and Barry.

In one standout moment, a clownish McKinnon locks eyes with Cumberbatch and mouths, with almost violent intensity: ‘I want to f** you.’

It’s a scene that’s guaranteed to earn a huge laugh, perfectly contrasting the blunt, SNL-style jab with the subtler irony threaded through much of

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