Jake Gyllenhaal Recalls Awkwardly Meeting Brad Pitt During Jennifer Aniston Marriage
usmagazine.comNot his finest hour. Jake Gyllenhaal let his nerves get the best of him when he met his costar Jennifer Aniston’s then-husband, Brad Pitt, in the early 2000s.The Guilty star, 41, and the Friends alum, 52, were working on 2002’s The Good Girl and had “a lot of very racy scenes” together.
However, Gyllenhaal was more anxious about his first encounter with Pitt, 58.“I remember putting my hand out to shake his and accidentally hitting the door.
He said, so confidently and kindly, ‘Well, you have another one. It’s all right,’” the Spider-Man: Far From Home actor recalled in W Magazine’s Best Performances issue. “He was very, very, very sweet to me, and it was actually a really lovely exchange.
But, yeah — I was starstruck.”Gyllenhaal previously confessed in October 2021 that he had a crush on Aniston while shooting the film. “Oh yeah, it was torture,” he said on The Howard Stern Show of filming sex scenes with the actress. “But it was not torture.
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