Anne Hathaway wasn’t the least bit taken aback when her Brokeback Mountain co-star Jake Gyllenhaal asked if he could get more intimate with her onscreen – because he wanted the shot to look real.
Hathaway, in an interview with radio station Heart revealed that
like most male stars, Gyllenhaal had wanted to make their love scene in
the movie as real as possible.
"Sometimes you work with actors, and they can be lovely guys,
but they have kind of dodgy instincts when it comes to kissing in
scenes. They want to try to make it look a bit too real if you know
what I mean," The Sun quoted her, telling the station.
"There was this scene in ‘Brokeback Mountain’ where I get my
kit off and I'm in the car with Jake Gyllenhaal and he's touched my
shoulder and he's touched my stomach and he's touched around my back.
Everywhere except for, you know, 'the girls'.
"So the director yells cut and we go behind a screen and I'm
putting my clothes back on and Jake comes up to me and says: 'Annie,
the thing is, the scene, in real life I would… and the director's not
yelling cut, so… can I?'
"I just turned to him and said: 'It's okay Jake, yes, you can touch my boobs,'" she said.
However, one actor with whom she had a far different experience was her Becoming Jane co-star James McAvoy.
"With James, right before we started he turned to me and said
'closed mouths, no tongue' and that's what I normally say to people -
so it was a pleasure," she said.