Jennifer Lawrence hated her sex scene with Chris Pratt in ‘Passengers’: “He was...”
The famous actress recognized that this was her first “real sex scene” and that she was not prepared for it; thus she managed to overcome the situation.
The figure of the intimacy coordinator is increasingly present in the Hollywood industry. All this in order to have more control over the intimate or sex scenes in movies. However, there are those who are not entirely convinced of the presence of such professionals on film sets, such as Sean Bean when he said they “ruined the spontaneity” or, more recently, Oscar winner Mikey Madison, rejecting the supervision of her sex scenes in ’Anora‘. Be that as it may, each performer deals with these types of situations in their own way, as was the case with Jennifer Lawrence and her intimate scene with Chris Pratt in ’Passengers‘, the sci-fi film they both starred in in 2016.
Jennifer Lawrence had to get drunk
This is how actress Jennifer Lawrence recognized it in her day, assuring that she needed a previous preparation for her intimate scene with Chris Pratt; and is that the actress assured that that was her “first real sex scene” in her career, something for which she was not prepared. So much so, that the experience was “weird” despite being only fiction; and is that kissing a married man was quite a trauma for her.
To the point that she got drunk to withstand the pressure of filming those scenes, saying that “sex scenes are the most unsexy things in the world”. In addition, Lawrence later had to endure the media noise about her fictional on-screen romance, since at the time Chris Pratt announced his divorce with Anna Faris, which further triggered rumors about the alleged romance between the two performers.
“I had my first real sex scene a couple weeks ago, and it was really bizarre. It was really weird. I got really, really drunk. But then that led to more anxiety when I got home because I was like, ‘What have I done? I don’t know’,” the actress explained at a roundtable discussion with The Hollywood Reporter.
“And he was married. And it was going to be my first time kissing a married man, and guilt is the worst feeling in your stomach. I knew it was my job, but I couldn’t tell my stomach that. So I called my mom, and I was like, ‘Will you just tell me it’s OK?’ It was just very vulnerable. And you don’t know what’s too much. You want to do it real, you want everything to be real, but then… That was the most vulnerable I’ve ever been,” she revealed.
Even so, during the filming of these scenes not everything was tense and uncomfortable for Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, as they also had fun with certain improvisations that arose spontaneously, such as filming their first kiss, a most ridiculous situation due to their space suits: “Our heads couldn’t reach each other. We had a good laugh about it, and we incorporated it into the movie,” said Lawrence later for USA Today.
Be that as it may, intimacy coordinators are increasingly present in the Hollywood industry: “You need a pre-signed agreement on what will happen when the camera starts rolling, which can only be achieved with the help of an intimacy coordinator. It is also important to incorporate rehearsals and talk about what the director wants to achieve with the least invasive touch,” explain experts in the field.
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