You'd be forgiven for forgetting about Passengers, but Jennifer Lawrence never will.
If you can't recall, Passengers is a sci-fi movie focusing on Lawrence and Chris Pratt's characters,
Aurora Lane and Jim Preston. They are two passengers among many on an interstellar journey,
and Aurora and Jim wake up early - 90 years too early, as a matter of fact,
with no obvious way to go back to sleep. When you have 90 years to kill with someone,
things are likely to turn romantic out of sheer boredom, if nothing else. However,
even though Lawrence and Pratt have strong on-screen chemistry,
the act of filming those steamy scenes was decidedly flaccid, especially for Lawrence.
The actress recently opened up about the many ways in which her experience
getting intimate with her co-star was less than ideal — through no
real fault of Pratt's. That doesn't mean she despised filming Passengers. Instead,
whenever she had to get all lovey-dovey in the film, things turned awkward quickly.
During a roundtable discussion hosted by The Hollywood Reporter,
Jennifer Lawrence revealed that Passengers had her first
intimate scene ever on film and she used liquid courage to help her get through.
Lawrence said she felt extremely awkward knowing the scenes she had to film. So,
to prepare for her big moment, she drank. A lot. All that alcohol had unintended consequences,
though. Lawrence grappled with extreme anxiety in between shoots. While Lawrence knew her job
was to kiss the then-married-to-Anna Faris Chris Pratt, even the feigned infidelity
gave her a queasy feeling every time the two had to lock lips in front of the cameras.
To make matters worse, the actual process of filming romantic scenes was less than fun.
One scene that was cut from the film required Pratt and Lawrence to rock a table back and forth,
and neither of them liked it. When asked about the scene, Lawrence said:
"Sex scenes are the most unsexy things in the world."
"I can't think of anything else to try to save us, and I don't even want to think about it anymore."
The duo's onscreen romance also led to some real world problems. When acting in a romantic movie,
there is always the unspoken fear that fiction will bleed over into reality,
complicating real-life relationships. When two stars have blazing on-screen chemistry,
it's a law of the universe that the rumor mill is going to kick into overdrive. Just ask Bradley
Cooper and Lady Gaga. While many celebrities understand that this is part of the job and can
find the mental fortitude to rise above it, this gossip almost always takes a psychological toll.
Tales of behind-the-scenes infidelity spread like wildfire after Chris Pratt and his wife,
actress Anna Faris, announced their divorce. Jennifer Lawrence was at the top of the list
of potential causes, due unfairly to the romantic scenes she filmed with Pratt during Passengers.
Lawrence shot those rumors down during an interview with InStyle, stating that the
film had already been wrapped for years by the time Faris and Pratt announced their divorce.
Not even Anna Faris bought into the rumors. In her memoir Unqualified,
Faris states that she was good friends with Jennifer Lawrence and was embarrassed by the
gossip. Faris also writes that Lawrence was apologetic about the whole thing,
as she knew it was adding even more stress onto Faris during a stressful time.
While Jennifer Lawrence has mostly unpleasant memories of filming Passengers' romance scenes,
it wasn't all bad. In true Jennifer Lawrence-style, she liked them the
most when they went off the rails, generating some of the best moments on the film's set.
During an interview with Lawrence, USA Today discovered that one of Passengers' funniest
moments was completely unintentional. In the movie, Lawrence and Pratt's characters eventually
don space suits, and after they take the helmets off, they go in for a kiss... but bump into each
other because the suits are so big. That wasn't supposed to happen. They were supposed to lock
lips passionately, but the unforeseen bulky nature of the space suits transformed the scene
into a comedic bit. Everyone on set liked it so much that it was left in the film's final cut.
This unscripted moment is yet another entry in the list of movie bloopers that were deemed superior
to the intended versions. Coincidentally, another recent example of such a scene also involves Chris
Pratt — that time he accidentally dropped an Infinity Stone in Guardians of the Galaxy. Oops.
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