Jake reveals filming love scenes with Jennifer Aniston ‘was torture’
Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal’s time acting alongside Jennifer Aniston on the 2002 film The Good Girl wasn’t all easy.
The actor recalled working with the F.R.I.E.N.D.S star on the romantic drama during an interview on The Howard Stern Show recently, reported Fox News. When Stern asked him if it was “torture” to film love scenes with Aniston, Gyllenhaal said ‘yes’ because he liked her so much.
“Oh yeah, it was torture, yes it was,” he said, laughing. “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 continued.
“It’s oddly mechanical. And also 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 added.
The star also explained that a certain method was used that involved a pillow. “The pillow technique was used,” he said. “That was just preemptive and used generally always when actually in a horizontal place in that movie.” He added, “I think that was actually a Jennifer suggestion. She was very kind to suggest it before we began. She was like, ‘I’m putting a pillow here’.”
In 2016, Gyllenhaal first revealed his crush on Aniston. “She’s a rough one, you know, not likable. So hard to compliment,” he told People and added, “I will say, I had a crush on her for years. And working with her was not easy... I was - um, yeah. That’s all I’m going to say. It was lovely. It wasn’t hard, that’s what I would say.”
While Gyllenhaal just made his first red-carpet appearance with model girlfriend Jeanne Cadieu, Aniston recently said she’s ready to date again.