Jennifer Lawrence makes bold confession about filming sex scenes

Jennifer Lawrence has opened up about sex scenes, making a bold confession about what it's like to film them.

Lawrence, 35, has had to film a fair few intimate scenes during her 20-year career, and it turns out she has a preference when it comes to who she films them with.

Lawrence made the confession while chatting about her newest film, Die My Love, in which she plays Grace, a new mum suffering from postpartum depression and psychosis. Robert Pattinson plays Grace's husband Jackson, and the movie includes two main sex scenes, including one dubbed the 'tiger scene'.

Chatting with Josh Horowitz at the 92nd Street Y, as per PEOPLE, Lawrence explained that she and Pattinson had to film the scene on their very first day of filming, despite not knowing one another at all.

Lawrence opened up about filming sex scenes (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for ABA)

“The day before our first day, Lynne showed Rob and I a scene from If,” Lawrence previously said at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

“It was these actors, and they’re attacking each other like tigers, and we were like, ‘OK, yeah,’ and she was like, ‘Can you do it naked, yeah?’

"We were like, ‘Oh, OK,’ and that was the first day on set.”

Turns out, Lawrence found it easier to film the scene due to the fact she didn't already know Pattinson.

“It was actually easier that way because Rob and I did not know each other, which is kind of better, you know?,” she told Horowitz.

“Like in Hunger Games, like me and Josh Hutcherson would have to kiss and that's like… Imagine it.

The pair had to perform a 'tiger' scene (Mubi)

“You know, it's weirder and so yeah, doing it with a stranger is preferable.”

Lawrence also explained that prior to the tiger scene, she and Pattinson took 'interpretive dance lessons'.

“We got to Calgary like three weeks before we started shooting. Rob and I both [are] embarrassed very easily, and that was mortifying. It was, I mean, I'm not...a dancer, Rob's [the] worst dancer," she said.

Lawrence stars alongside Robert Pattinson (Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images)

“And, and it was like, now blow like a tree — like it was just so embarrassing. So I think by the time she was like, ‘Yeah, get naked.’ We were just kind of like, ‘Okay, at least it's not interpretive dance…’”

Lawrence also explained that filming the awkward scenes straight away helped ease her nerves on set, adding that she typically suffers with anxiety prior to starting a new film.