Atlanta, GA 12/27/2010 10:43:23 PM
Ed Zwick believes nudity was crucial to the story told in ‘Love & Other Drugs’.
The director cast Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in the comedy drama
movie about a pharmaceutical salesman who falls in love with a young
Parkinson’s Disease sufferer, and is adamant the star pair had to be
naked on screen to make their love story believable.
He said: “If I try to imagine this movie without doing that (nudity) I
can’t. When people are first involved and as into each other as these
people are then that bed becomes their world. They eat there, they talk
there, they sleep there, everything is there. Had we done the movie
with the sheets pulled up to their necks like Rock Hudson and Doris Day
in ‘Pillow Talk’ it would have been very naff. And these are actors
that really are committed to authenticity.”
Zwick was delighted to get Gyllenhaal and Hathaway on board for the
movie and admits he was nervous the two actors wouldn’t be able to
commit because of their hectic schedules.
The ‘Blood Diamond’ filmmaker said: “Scheduling is always an issue
because you want the people you want, and because people come into
demand it is a real challenge, but I guess it tends to turn out that,
if people want to do it enough they find a way to do it.”
