Jake Gyllenhaal has termed filming sex scenes with Jennifer Aniston was ‘torture’
On the 2002 romance ‘The Good Girl,’ the couple had to film intimate scenes together.
Jake Gyllenhaal described filming sex scenes with Jennifer Aniston as “torture,” describing the difficulties actors face when attempting to make a scene look realistic.
The couple co-starred in the 2002 romance The Good Girl as two lovers who embark on an extramarital affair.
Gyllenhaal, who previously admitted in interviews that he had a “crush” on the Friends star, discussed filming The Good Girl’s sex scenes on The Howard Stern Show.
“[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 continued.
The actor also described the filming process as “oddly mechanical.”
“It’s a dance, you’re choreographing for a camera,” he continued. “You can get in it, but it’s like a fight scene, you have to choreograph those scenes.”
Gyllenhaal revealed that the scenes were shot using what he called “the pillow technique.”
“The pillow technique was used,” he explained. “That was just pre-emptive and used generally always when actually in a horizontal place in that movie.
“I think that was actually a Jennifer suggestion,” he added. “She was very kind to suggest it before we began. She was like, ‘I’m putting a pillow here.’”
Gyllenhaal’s most recent film, an English-language remake of the 2018 Danish thriller The Guilty, is now available on Netflix.