Josh Hartnett On Working With Intimacy Coordinator On The ‘Verity’ Set With Anne Hathaway & Dakota Johnson
Josh Hartnett shares steamy scenes with Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway on the set of Verity, and to make it happen, they used an intimacy coordinator.
In a new interview, Hartnett opened up about how an intimacy coordinator “played a big part” in filming the Colleen Hoover novel adaptation.
“So intimacy coordination played a big part, but when you’re working with amazing actors and professionals who understand the wrote and the writ and a director like Michael Showalter who likes to keep things alive and fun on set, we became fast friends, and so all that stuff just felt kind of goofy,” Hartnett said on ABC News Live Prime.
He continued, “We laughed a lot on this set and if we were ever to make another movie together it would have to be a comedy, but obviously this one is not so we had to keep a straight face occasionally.”
Verity follows renowned author Verity Crawford (Hathaway) and Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson), a struggling writer who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for Verity. After Lowen uncovers what appears to be Verity’s chilling autobiographical notes, she wrestles with the disturbing and twisted confessions about Verity’s husband Jeremy (Hartnett), and finds it hard to separate fiction from reality, manipulation from attraction, and opportunity from obsession.
On working with Hathaway and Johnson, Hartnett said, “As I said, we got along really well, and when you get along with people and you have a director who understands what’s needed from you, you can create that chemistry sort of in a way like a puzzle. There are certain things that lead to other things in the narrative that I think build on that chemistry, and we got along really well, so we could play with those dynamics.”
Hartnett noted that Hathaway and Johnson “are both such professional and intentional actors and just really, really talented,” adding, “It felt like I was in the best possible position to be able to do that with them.”
Watch Hartnett’s interview in the video below.
