Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence share a steamy scene in their upcoming science-fiction movie “Passengers,” and it sounds like getting it right was quite the production.
Pratt told E! News Monday at Comic-Con that he did his best to put his leading lady at ease while filming the sex scene.
“We’re actors and it’s a big a part of the job,” Pratt said. “Your job as a leading man is to make the actress feel comfortable, and you do that by minimizing the amount of people that are there and ... having a sense of whether or not they’re feeling okay.”
Lawrence previously explained how she needed some liquid courage prior to hitting the sheets for her uncomfortable scene.
“I got really, really drunk,” the actress told The Hollywood Reporter during roundtable interview last year. “But then that led to more anxiety when I got home because I was like, ‘What have I done? I don’t know.’ 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. And I knew it was my job, but I couldn’t tell my stomach that.”
While sharing a glass of red wine with Seth Meyers in December, Lawrence perfectly described what makes a sex scene so awkward.
“With sex scenes, you don’t know what to do,” the actress said. “You’re like, is it enough? Is it — your worst nightmare — is it too much? Are they going to be like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa!’”
We’ll have to wait and see how it all turned out when “Passengers” hits theaters Dec. 21, 2016.
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