Jennifer Lawrence is opening up about her experience filming intimate scenes with Robert Pattinson in their new movie Die My Love, and says she felt so comfortable with him that she didn’t need an intimacy coordinator on set.
During an appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast while promoting the film, the 34-year-old actor explained that working with Pattinson was easy and respectful.
“We did not have [an intimacy coordinator], or maybe we did but we didn’t really… I felt really safe with Rob,” she said, adding that he is “not pervy and very in love with [partner] Suki Waterhouse.”
She shared that the two mostly talked about “our kids and relationships,” and there was never any awkward confusion about boundaries. Lawrence also pointed out that, with some men, the dynamic can feel uncomfortable.
“A lot of male actors get offended if you don’t want to f--k them, and then the punishment starts,” she said. But, she added, “He was not like that.”
The Lynne Ramsay-directed psychological drama stars Lawrence as a woman spiraling after childbirth, with Pattinson playing her disengaged husband.
Lawrence, who has earned early acclaim and Oscar buzz, also bared it all in the film, which she shot while pregnant with her second child.
While speaking at a recent screening, she explained that this role brought a different mindset compared to her previous scene in No Hard Feelings.
“I don’t care about n-dity. I’m not sensitive about it,” she said. “I wanted Lynne to have total freedom artistically… I think being pregnant took a lot of, like, vanity anxiety away.”
Before filming her last scene like this, she had focused heavily on dieting and workouts.
This time, she said the reality of pregnancy simply made that impossible. She recalled working long days and feeling exhausted, and even declined offers to retouch her body in post-production.
After being sent a close-up of cellulite, she remembered responding, “No. That’s an a--.”
Die My Love arrives in theaters Nov. 7 from Mubi.