It was quite a different proposition for Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal to play together on Love & Other Drugs after 2005’s Brokeback Mountain. The former – to hit theatres a month hence – is the one to take “a lot of nerve”, as the 27-year-old actress confessed when talking to Vogue.
She is also a mite worried about how the risqué scenes of Love & Other Drugs will go down with the audiences.
Love is certainly a drug for the adventurous Maggie Murdoch and her boyfriend Jamie, who is a Viagra salesman, and Hathaway and Gyllenhaal have to measure up to their characters before the cameras.
Now Maggie’s emotional and sexual temperament proved to be a handful for the more reserved actress.
Actors may not mind getting undressed and playing up their bodies for their roles, says Hathaway, but many shy away from getting naked emotionally, showing their hidden selves to others. And Maggie took a lot out of Anne, who admitted to feeling “a wreck” throughout.
“I think I cried every single day,” she confessed. “I totally fell apart.”
She also thinks many people around her felt the way she has been depending more on them during the period.
And there was one special person she was too glad to turn to for support: actor Adam Shulman.
He is one of those people with whom you feel at ease from the first moment, Hathaway recounts. But their relationship took some time to ripe, and as soon as they discovered that they were single, they began to grow closer.
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