Jennifer Lawrence was so scared of a scene with Chris Pratt that she had to get drunk and call her mother

Jennifer Lawrence was so scared of a scene with Chris

In 2015, after successes such as the Hunger Games series and the X-Men franchise, Jennifer Lawrence shot the sci-fi film PassengersIn it, she is the only one, apart from Chris Pratt, to wake up from the cold sleep of a colony spaceship and for years she has to make do with her only awake fellow traveler for company. Aside from the film’s eventual flop, the filming itself presented challenges for JLaw.

The sci-fi film Passengers left Jennifer Lawrence in despair

The chamber play in space was directed by Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) and written by Jon Spaihts (Prometheus). Aside from the large spaceships and technical problems in space, it was an intimate scene that caused the most distress for lead actress Jennifer Lawrence. At the time, she revealed to the Hollywood Reporter with her usual candor how she felt. her first “real” sex scene prepared:

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Passengers: Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence

I got really, really drunk. But that only led to more anxious worry. When I got home, I asked myself, ‘What have I done? I don’t know.’ And [Chris Pratt] was married! It was the first time I would kiss a married man. I knew that was my job, but I couldn’t make that clear to my gut. So I called my mom and said, ‘Can you please tell me this is okay?’ I was very vulnerable. You don’t know when it’s too much. You want to portray it realistically, but in this case…

Chris Pratt was married to Anna Faris in 2015 and although intimate scenes are part of many acting stars’ careers, this was still new territory for the then 25-year-old Jennifer Lawrence.

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