Jake Gyllenhaal has opened up about using “the pillow technique” to obscure his genitalia during racy sex scenes with Jennifer Aniston.
The 40-year-old actor also admitted that filming the love making scenes with the Friends star, 52, had been “torture” for him.
He confessed to having a major crush on Jennifer that had lasted years – making filming those awkward moments even more nerve-wracking.
During a chat with Howard Stern, Jake had been discussing his upcoming movie The Guilty when the host brought up the raunchy moments from the 2002 film, The Good Girl.
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Recalling the moment where he and The Morning Show star got steamy, Jake told Howard: “Oh yeah, it was torture. Yeah, it was. But it was also not torture, I mean, come on. It was a mix of both.”
Digging deeper, Howard asked Jake if he had to provide Jennifer with any warnings when it came to “protrusion”.
Laughing, Jake deflected by adding: “Weirdly, love scenes are awkward because there are maybe 30, 50 people watching it.
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“Maybe if you have a closed set, it’s less. That doesn’t turn me on. Most of the time, it’s oddly mechanical, right?
“Also, it’s a dance. You’re choreographing for a camera… It’s one of those things — it’s like a fight scene, you’ve got to choreograph those things, and I always have tried.”
However, the actor went on to explain that it had actually been Jen’s idea to use the famous “pillow technique” to prevent moments of awkwardness.
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Jake went on: “I do remember a pillow. Yeah, the pillow technique was used.
“That was just preemptive, and used — generally, always — when actually in a horizontal place in that movie.
“Everything else is whatever it was. I remember those two characters did a lot of making out on like, boxes in the back room.
“I think that was actually a Jennifer suggestion. I think she was actually very kind to suggest it before we began… She was like, ‘I’m putting a pillow here.’ That was it, that was all she said.”
In the comedy-drama The Good Girl, Jennifer enters into an affair with her retail co-worker (Jake) behind her husband’s back.
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