Anne Hathaway on stripping for her 'very racy' love scenes with Jake Gyllenhaal

Upclose and personal: Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal at the premiere of Love And Other Drugs last week

Actress Anne Hathaway has admitted she was ’mortified’ stripping for sex scenes with Jake Gyllenhaal.

The 27-year-old said the experience in their new film Love and Other Drugs was so discomforting that it has made her consider not appearing in other sex scenes.

Gyllenhaal has described the film,which is released later this month, as a ’nude fest’.

But for Hathaway it was harder to cope with stripping off and simulating sex in front of the film crew.

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She said: ’It’s racy, very racy. I keep asking people if it is too sexy for them. However, it is just part of the job.

’That being said, it is intensely mortifying taking your clothes off in front of other people, but it is also intensely mortifying doing a lot of things in front of people and I’ve learned how to deal with that.

’Who knows if I will ever do it again, it depends on the material.’

Hathaway plays a woman suffering from Parkinson’s Disease who falls in love with a Viagra salesman, played by Gyllenhaal.

She admitted spending large parts in bed with Gyllenhaal and the film’s poster shows the couple naked in bed covered by sheets.

Gyllenhaal has said he felt comfortable with his co-star having had a previous sex scene in Brokeback Mountain.

’Very, very racy’: Gyllenhaal has described the film as a ’nude fest’

He told a US showbiz website: ’The sex is portrayed in a real way, in an intimate way, and nobody is hiding behind anybody.

’I think that is hopefully what love is about and that is what these two characters do in this movie. I hope people would want to see that, and if not then we’re both naked.

’We had already had fake onscreen sex before in Brokeback Mountain so it came naturally, we just had to do it again.

’But in all seriousness, it was very brave of Anne. I think women tend to be objectified more than men and she really does bare a lot, not only literally but figuratively. Her performance was incredible,’ Gyllenhaal said.

’But we’re friends and we understand the process of acting, and as a result of that we felt comfortable, even when it was awkward, and we try to joke about it.

’I try to be as respectful as possible, and if you are respectful on the set it makes it as dirty as it can be onscreen.’

The film is based on the biography of a Viagra salesman Jamie Reidy from the 1990s.