Jennifer Lawrence is opening up about her experience on the set of Die My Love with co-star Robert Pattinson.
The film, directed by Lynne Ramsay, who also co-wrote the screenplay alongside Enda Walsh and Alice Birch, follows Grace (Lawrence), who develops postpartum depression, and, alongside her partner Jackson (Pattinson), enters psychosis.
Lawrence and Pattinson share intimate scenes, and the American Hustle star revealed why she felt so comfortable working with her co-star.
“We did dance lessons together, which was like team building exercises,” she said on the latest episode of Las Culturistas podcast. “In the end, it ended up being more helpful just for choreography of sex scenes and fighting scenes.”
The topic of an intimate coordinator came up but Lawrence didn’t remember if they had one and explained why she ultimately didn’t need one.
“We did not have one or maybe we did, but we didn’t really… I felt really safe with him,” she said. “He’s not pervy and he’s very in love with [partner] Suki [Waterhouse]. We mostly were talking about our kids and relationships so there wasn’t any weird, like, ‘Does he think I like him?’”
“If there was a little bit of that I would probably have an intimacy coordinator. A lot of male actors get offended if you don’t want to f*** them, and then the punishment starts. But he was not like that, for the record.”
Intimacy coordinators are people hired to facilitate communication between actors and directors during intimate scenes. This position emerged in response to the #MeToo movement.
Lawrence also shared her thoughts about appearing nude in the film, which was done when she was pregnant with her second child.
“I don’t care about nudity. I’m not sensitive about it,” she said. “I think being pregnant took a lot of, like, vanity anxiety away. Before No Hard Feelings, I was dieting and not eating carbs and working out. I was pregnant [in Die My Love]. What was I gonna do? Not eat?”
Die My Love opens in theaters on November 7, and it also stars LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, Gabrielle Rose, Debs Howard, Sarah Lind, and Marcus Della Rosa.