Expect Gwyneth Paltrow to stick to her principles.
In Alfonso Cuaron’s 1998 film adaptation of Great Expectations, she and Ethan Hawke shared many tender moments, including some that could be described as intimate, but Paltrow played out what was supposed to be a more explicit love scene, as the actors portrayed it 27 years later.
“Do you remember when Alfonso pitched you the love scene?” Hawke asked Paltrow in a conversation with Vanity Fair in December.
“Oh my god, he said[in a Mexican director’s accent]’And he’s going to beat you up,’ and I thought, ‘Oh my god, my dad’s going to have a heart attack!'” she recalled (Paltrow was very close to her father, Bruce Paltrow, who died in 2002).
Hawk continued, also imitating Cuaron (who called Cuaron a “great madman”), “‘He’ll go down on you, the camera will go down your belly, and it’ll go over your chest! And as you reach ecstasy, it’ll go in your face! And when you reach ecstasy, the light will explode like the sun!'”
“And I remember Gwyneth saying, ‘Alfonso, I would never do that,'” the Blue Moon star added.
