Jake Gyllenhaal revealed filming sex scene with Jennifer Aniston was "torture"
The actor claims that sex scenes in movies are shot like choreography and 'oddly mechanical'
Jake Gyllenhaal described the filming of sex scenes with Jennifer Aniston in the movie "The Good Girl" as "torture" while on The Howard Stern Show.
He explained the difficulties actors face in trying to make sex scenes as realistic as possible.
Gyllenhaal and Aniston played lovers in the aforementioned film, and the actor revealed in several earlier conversations that he had a crush on the “Friends” star.
"Filming the sex scenes was torture, yes it was,” Gyllenhaal said. “But it was also not torture. I mean, come on, it was like a mix of both.
“Weirdly, love scenes are awkward, because there are maybe 30, 50 people watching it? That doesn’t turn me on," he added on the show.
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He described the process of filming sex scenes as "mechanical".
"It’s a dance, you’re choreographing for a camera. You can get in it, but it’s like a fight scene, you have to choreograph those scenes," he continued.
Gyllenhaal revealed that he filmed sex scenes with Aniston using "the pillow technique”.
"That was just pre-emptive and used generally always when actually in a horizontal place in that movie. I think that was actually Jennifer's suggestion. She was very kind to suggest it before we began. She was like, ‘I’m putting a pillow here,'" the famous actor recalled.
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By: Helen B.
