Jake Gyllenhaal admits it was ‘torture’ filming intercourse scenes with Jennifer Aniston
Jake Gyllenhaal had a little bit of a troublesome time on set whereas filming with Jennifer Aniston again within the day.
And by robust, I imply he admitted it was ‘torture’ to do their intercourse scenes. Though not fairly the painful form of torture however only a bit extra of a, nicely, psychological problem.
The pair of stars appeared alongside each other within the 2002 comedy-drama, The Good Woman.
Aniston starred because the low cost retailer clerk Justine who strikes up an affair with inventory boy Holden (Gyllenhaal).
The movie got here with a fair proportion of intercourse scenes as they adopted a specific method to make issues little a much less awkward. Nevertheless it didn’t precisely assist that the Marvel actor had a little bit of a crush on his co-star.
Talking on The Howard Stern Present, the now 44-year-old admitted that like many others at the moment, he fancied the Buddies actor.
The Good Woman got here alongside whereas the sitcom was nonetheless airing, with Aniston identified by many as Rachel Inexperienced.
And the radio host mentioned to Gyllenhaal of their intimate scenes: “It was torture for you, proper?”
As he confessed: “Oh yeah, it was torture, sure it was however was additionally not torture, I imply, come on – it was like a mixture of each”.
The Brokeback Mountain star backed this up again in 2016 too when he advised PEOPLE: “I’ll say, I had a crush on her for years. And dealing together with her was not simple.
“I used to be – um, yeah. That’s all I’m going to say. It was beautiful. It wasn’t onerous, that’s what I’d say.”
However regardless of his ‘large crush’ on Aniston, it wasn’t precisely steamy on set when filming the intimate scenes – as many different actors have opened up about.
Gyllenhaal defined there’s a ‘mechanical’ nature to those form of scenes, with an entire crew watching the choreographed routine play out.
“Weirdly, love scenes are awkward as a result of there are possibly 30, 50 individuals watching. That does not flip me on,” he mentioned.
“More often than not, it is oddly mechanical, proper? And likewise, it is a dance, like, you choreograph it for a digicam. It is a type of like a battle scene, you gotta choreograph these issues and I all the time have tried.”
And to assist issues out for the pair, Aniston apparently urged the pair place a pillow between them as a ‘pre-emptive’ measure.
“I believe that was really a Jennifer suggestion, she was very variety to counsel it earlier than we started,” Gyllenhaal added.
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