Jake Gyllenhaal Dishes On 'Open And Intimate' Love Scenes With Anne Hathaway

Jake Gyllenhaal was happy to get naked for his role in the movie Love & Other Drugs with Anne Hathaway, because he believes stripping down makes the relationship more authentic.

He said: “If we were going to be as open and intimate in a love story as we could be we have to do the same thing with sex.

“When you see two people in a movie like that, particularly as an actor, and they are portraying two people in love, it’s like, how do you even unconsciously believe people are in love if they don’t want to be naked around each other.

“I don’t know about you guys but I’ve never had sex with underwear on and it’s an odd thing to watch an actor do. You can try but I wouldn’t recommend it! So that was really important. We knew that if we did we would get somewhere in the audiences’ unconscious that these were people who were actually in love and not just actors telling a love story.”

The Hollywood hunk wasn’t scared about getting nude and didn’t consider working out any harder at the gym for the role of pharmaceutical rep' Jamie Randall.

He added to BANG Showbiz: “We really didn’t think about getting in shape. I wanted him to be a little skinny and sinewy and slimy.”

Jake Gyllenhaal Does Not See Himself As A 'Leading Man' in Showbiz

Jake Gyllenhaal is a pretty modest dude. He says he doesn't see himself as a big time, "leading man" kind of actor in the ranks of huge stars like Tom Cruise. The real question, however, is: Is he currently Taylor Swift's leading man? Still no hints on that front, unfortunately.

Getting back to movies, he said: “I don’t see myself like a leading man at all. That’s very result-oriented. I’ve been like that at different times in my career, but at this point I’m not. I think people look at me like that bit, but I don’t. I’ve been the lead in lots of different movies but it’s never been about that.

“It’s funny, I as at some event for Prince Of Persia and Tom Cruise and Nicolas Cage were there. And there I was standing with them thinking ‘What the hell am I doing here?’ ”

Jake also admitted he likes to tackle a wide variety of characters in his movies because of advice he was given by his father many years ago. He told Total Film magazine: “My dad always says to me that the job of any artist is to disturb the comfortable and to comfort the disturbed.”