It was ‘torture’ for Jake Gyllenhaal to shoot intimate scenes with Jennifer Aniston

On Tuesday, Jake Gyllenhaal made an appearance on The Howard Stern Show and shared his experience of working with Jennifer Aniston in 2002 film The Good Girl.

The host asked the 40-year-old if it was “torture” for him to shoot romantic scenes with the Friends star because he had a crush on her.

The actor responded, “Oh yeah, it was torture, yes it was. But it was also not torture. I mean, come on, it was like a mix of both."

He went on, "Weirdly, love scenes are awkward, because there are maybe 30, 50 people watching it? That doesn't turn me on. 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."

Sharing more details about how the intimate scenes were filmed, the Prisoners actor said, "The pillow technique was used. 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.'"