Jake Gyllenhaal admits it was ‘torture’ filming sex scenes with real life crush Jennifer Aniston and reveals she would put a pillow between them as a barrier

Jake Gyllenhaal revealed that he had such a crush on Jennifer Aniston that it was ‘torture’ doing love scenes with the actress.

The pair starred together in 2002 film ‘The Good Girl’ and the 40-year-old actor said it wasn’t easy because of his real life crush on the 52-year-old ‘Friends’ actress.

Speaking in an interview on Monday with ‘The Howard Stern Show’, Gyllenhaal was asked by the host if it was ‘torture’ to film love scenes with somebody he fancied in real life.

Real crush: Jake Gyllenhaal revealed that he had such a crush on Jennifer Aniston that it was ‘torture’ doing love scenes with the actress

‘Oh yeah, it was torture, yes it was,” Gyllenhaal replied. ”But it was also not torture. I mean, come on, it was like a mix of both.’

But he said that such is the ‘mechanical nature’ of love scenes he thankfully managed to keep his true feelings towards Jennifer well-hidden.

He added: ‘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.”

A well-placed pillow, which was actually Aniston’s suggestion, also helped a lot.

Comedy drama: Jennifer Aniston and Jake are shown in a still from the 2002 film The Good Girl

Like torture:  ‘Oh yeah, it was torture, yes it was,’ Gyllenhaal replied. ‘But it was also not torture. I mean, come on, it was like a mix of both’ 

The pillow technique was used.

‘That was just preemptive and used generally always when actually in a horizontal place in that movie. 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”,’ Gyllenhaal recalled.

Awkward scenes: He added: ‘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’ 

The Los Angeles native also was asked if he thinks he could be a successful husband and father amid managing his thriving career.

Gyllenhaal responded, ‘That’s all I want – is to be a good husband and a father … that really is what I want.’

The actor, who’s been linked to model Jeanne Cadieu, 25, the last three years, added, ‘Now that I have fulfilled a lot of things in my career that I feel comfortable with, I can safely say that. I don’t know if I could have said that before.’

Gyllenhaal noted how he’s observed how his sister Maggie’s life, family and marriage – she and husband Peter Sarsgaard are parents to daughters Ramona, 15, and Gloria Ray, nine – has ‘deepened’ her work.

Family talk: The Los Angeles native also was asked if he thinks he could be a successful husband and father amid managing his thriving career 

The actor appeared to promote his new film The Guilty, which is streaming on Netflix

Stern predicted that Gyllenhaal and the French beauty Jeanne Cadieu would be getting married

‘I think there comes a point where you either start getting more shallow or getting more deep in your work,’ the Jarhead actor told the radio icon.

Stern predicted that Gyllenhaal and the French beauty would be getting married, to which the Brokeback Mountain actor said, ‘I love her so much – she’s such a good person.’

Gyllenhaal continued, ‘There’s only so far I’ll go as, you know, in talking about it,’ adding, ‘it’s a choice for both of us.’

The Oscar-nominated actor told Stern he doesn’t think that Cadieu ‘really enjoys, you know, all the other stuff,’ in terms of the limelight of the high-profile relationship, ‘and so that’s part of the reason why I just adore her.’

Gyllenhaal explained the family dynamic at play when Cadieu joined him, his sister and Sarsgaard at the 2021 New York Film Festival for the premiere of Maggie’s new movie, The Lost Daughter.

‘My sister grabbed her, pulled her on that red carpet, which I think neither of us are really inclined to, you know, go on – even me,’ said the actor. ‘And to be there to support my sister was what we’re there to do and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, this is family.”

Gyllenhaal and Cadieu, who also attended the Tony Awards together last month, were first seen with one another in New York City in December of 2018.

The actor appeared to promote his new film The Guilty, which is streaming on Netflix.

Gyllenhaal and Cadieu joined his sister Maggie and her husband Peter Sarsgaard at the New York Film Festival for the premiere of Maggie’s new movie The Lost Daughter last week

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