Jennifer Lawrence’s fully nude beach scene with Andrew Barth Feldman in No Hard Feelings (2023) took about a day to shoot after extensive rehearsal. Her response to performing it was laughter: “I didn’t even have a second thought. It was hilarious to me,” she said while promoting the comedy with Feldman in a 2023 Variety interview.
Feldman described the practical safeguards in a June 2023 Independent interview: intimacy coordinators and a closed set. Speaking to People that June, he acknowledged the discomfort of performing naked while saying the production made it feel safe.
Lawrence had described a very different experience filming her first sex scene with Chris Pratt for Passengers (2016). At The Hollywood Reporter’s November 18, 2015 roundtable, she said, “I got really, really drunk.”
Kissing a married man brought guilt, even though it was acting, and she called her mother for reassurance. “That was the most vulnerable I’ve ever been,” she said.
Pratt recalled their drinks in an April 2016 Vanity Fair interview. He said Lawrence wanted wine, and described making a scene partner comfortable as a priority alongside the performance.
For Red Sparrow (2018), the thriller co-starring Joel Edgerton, director Francis Lawrence discussed the sex scenes with her for 3 hours in her backyard. He told Business Insider that she saw another nude scene being filmed with a small crew, covered monitors and robes available off camera before filming her own. He also let her see the cut before the studio; she requested no removals.
At the film’s 2018 Alice Tully Hall premiere, Lawrence described the director’s approach: he “looked at me like I had clothes, and then I just felt like I had clothes on.”
Her comfort also came with boundaries. On the October 28, 2026 episode of Call Her Daddy, she said she’d firmly challenged unapproved crew being present on a nude set.